Michael Nottebrock
2004-Nov-09 18:26 UTC
When will a thread-safe nvidia-driver be available?
[forwarded from ports@, seemed to belong here] Hi all, Does anyone know when a thread-safe nvidia-driver will be available? After upgrading to 5.3-RELEASE and KDE-3.3.1, I noticed some newly compiled KDE apps (e.g. kile and skim) core dump at start. The backtraces of the core files show that they are all related with libpthread and libGL (from nvidia-driver). And if I deinstall nvidia-driver and use "nv" driver, all those core-dumping apps work fine (even without recompilation). So I believe recent changes to threading libraries and possibly some ports make some programs trigger the thread-unsafe part of nvidia-driver more often. As the 5.x branch is stablized, and TLS implemented, it should be time to have a thread-safe nvidia-driver available. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20041110/8b049afa/attachment.bin
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:> Hi all, > > Does anyone know when a thread-safe nvidia-driver will be available? > > After upgrading to 5.3-RELEASE and KDE-3.3.1, I noticed some newly > compiled KDE apps (e.g. kile and skim) core dump at start. The > backtraces of the core files show that they are all related with > libpthread and libGL (from nvidia-driver). And if I deinstall > nvidia-driver and use "nv" driver, all those core-dumping apps work > fine (even without recompilation). So I believe recent changes to > threading libraries and possibly some ports make some programs trigger > the thread-unsafe part of nvidia-driver more often.This is well known and explained in an entry in src/UPDATING, BTW.> As the 5.x branch is stablized, and TLS implemented, it should be time > to have a thread-safe nvidia-driver available.Ask nvidia since they are the ones that release it. Supposedly they were going to release a new version of the driver once FreeBSD was released with TLS support... -- DE
Michael Nottebrock
2004-Nov-09 18:43 UTC
When will a thread-safe nvidia-driver be available?
On Tuesday, 9. November 2004 23:30, Jie Gao wrote:> After upgrading to 5.3-RELEASE and KDE-3.3.1, I noticed some newly > compiled KDE apps (e.g. kile and skim) core dump at start.Can you please try recompiling kile as described in this message http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-November/017730.html and see if it makes any difference? -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20041110/c3dc3b25/attachment.bin