From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 02:39:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D3E16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:39:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ntplx.net (mail.ntplx.net [204.213.176.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5568543D3F for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:39:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) iAA2dc85029063; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:39:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:39:38 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net To: Michael Nottebrock In-Reply-To: <200411100319.51920.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.ntplx.net) cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When will a thread-safe nvidia-driver be available? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Eischen List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:39:40 -0000 On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know when a thread-safe nvidia-driver will be available? > > After upgrading to 5.3-RELEASE and KDE-3.3.1, I noticed some newly > compiled KDE apps (e.g. kile and skim) core dump at start. The > backtraces of the core files show that they are all related with > libpthread and libGL (from nvidia-driver). And if I deinstall > nvidia-driver and use "nv" driver, all those core-dumping apps work > fine (even without recompilation). So I believe recent changes to > threading libraries and possibly some ports make some programs trigger > the thread-unsafe part of nvidia-driver more often. This is well known and explained in an entry in src/UPDATING, BTW. > As the 5.x branch is stablized, and TLS implemented, it should be time > to have a thread-safe nvidia-driver available. Ask nvidia since they are the ones that release it. Supposedly they were going to release a new version of the driver once FreeBSD was released with TLS support... -- DE