New nvidia drivers available

Doug Rabson dfr at nlsystems.com
Sat Aug 14 14:23:44 PDT 2004


On Saturday 14 August 2004 21:50, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 07:34:24PM +0100, Doug Rabson 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.
>
> Are you the author of this driver's code?

Not at all - I've just been testing pre-release versions of it :-)


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