Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

From: J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Tue Nov 28 2000 - 20:10:25 EST

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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:39:56 Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> Dont forget the nvidia driver is completely SMP broken. As in, trash your
> filesystems broken.
>

Not so broken. I use it under SMP 2.2.18-pre23 and works fine. But under 2.4
hangs. So I think it is something that changed between 2.2 and 2.4 (locking
granularity???). And just hangs your box, does not corrupt anything.

It is a pitty that any piece of copylefted code prevents nVivia of giving all
of the drivers in source form.

-- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta #> cd /pub mailto:jamagallon@able.es #> more beer

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