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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:22:39 +0100
From:      Glyn Tebbutt <d3c3it-linux@ntlworld.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New nvidia drivers available
Message-ID:  <1092514959.2097.3.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com>
References:  <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com>

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On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 19:34, 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.
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This is great news, thanks for posting this, im currently using -CURRENT
as the nvidia drivers before these wouldnt work with 5.2.1, im not a
developer so i'd prefer to stick with release

Again thanks for all the work
-- 



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