Nontrivial brokeness with new threads.

[Kenneth Culver]

Quoting David Gilbert <dgilbert at dclg.ca>:

>>>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Culver <culverk at sweetdreamsracing.biz> writes:
>
> Kenneth> Doesn't work here. As soon as I installed the nvidia driver,
> Kenneth> mplayer, xmms, java, openoffice, etc... (anything that uses
> Kenneth> threads) stopped working. When I set up libmap.conf to force
> Kenneth> everything to use libc_r, it all started working again.
>
> Damn... the one combinarion of library mapping I didn't try.  So with
> nvidia and -CURRENT, mapping everyone to use libc_r does work for me,
> too.
>
> Does this foil the KSE stuff in some way?
>
> Dave.
>
I think kse uses a cpu register on x86 that conflicts with what the nvidia
drivers do, and it comes out with an error about static ldt mapping in all
those programs because the nvidia driver is loaded AND those programs are
trying to use libpthread

Ken