New nvidia drivers available

Johan Pettersson manlix at demonized.net
Sat Aug 14 17:56:06 PDT 2004


On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:34:24 +0100
Doug Rabson <dfr at nlsystems.com> wrote:

> The latest 6113 build of the nvidia graphics drivers has just appeared
> 
> on nvidia's web site. Check out 
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-6113.html if you are
> currently using the nvidia proprietary drivers. This driver works
> nicely on FreeBSD-current and while this version is not thread-safe,
> it does not conflict with libpthread or libthr's use of %gs so you
> don't have to map everything down to libc_r any more :-).
> 
> There will be a thread-safe driver available for FreeBSD-current 
> sometime after I commit the pthread parts of the TLS support code.
>

Im running the new driver on a recent -CURRENT and xorg 6.7.0. When
starting zsnes I get this:

beard ~> zsnes
Fatal error 'Exceeded maximum lock level' at line 261 in file
/usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_cancel.c (errno = 0) Bus error (core
dumped)
beard ~>


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