New nvidia drivers available

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Sat Aug 14 14:42:35 PDT 2004


Doug Rabson wrote:
> 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
>>>:-).


umm if it's not thread safe, how can you link it with libthread?

>>>
>>>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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