[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#365068: nvidia-glx causing multiple apps to segfault

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Tuesday, 13. May 2008 20:37:01 Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:19:35PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:12:54PM +0200, Julien Lesaint wrote:
> > > Using the nvidia driver I get the same with the current version
> > > (169.12-1). xmms, mplayer are crashing with a seg fault. This is sad
> > > since this driver is bringing great improvement for the rest. Had to
> > > remove nvidia-glx and come back to the generic, slow nv driver.
> >
> > I have seen mythtv and folding at home segfault and general protection
> > fault myself, although I never thought it might be the nvidia driver.
> > Could be though.
> >
> > I am currently experimenting with packaging 173.08 so perhaps that will
> > help (if nothing else it compiles cleanly against 2.6.25 so that's an
> > improvement).
>
> Of course this particular problem almost certainly has nothing to do
> with the TLS library bug that this particular bug number is about.


Can you still reproduce these problems with current versions of the NVIDIA 
driver (195.36.24-1 entered testing yesterday), X.Org and the kernel?


Andreas