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From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:10:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001129021025.A768@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E140urK-0005FZ-00@the-village.bc.nu> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011281639180.27174-100000@anime.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011281639180.27174-100000@anime.net>; from goemon@anime.net on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:39:56 +0100


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

Linux 2.2.18-pre23-vm #3 SMP Wed Nov 22 22:33:53 CET 2000 i686 unknown

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-29  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-29  0:02 XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved] Petter Sundlöf
2000-11-29  0:12 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-29  0:22   ` Petter Sundlöf
2000-11-29  0:39   ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-29  1:10     ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2000-11-29  1:29       ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-29  1:48         ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-29  2:01     ` Kiril Vidimce
2000-11-29  2:08       ` Alan Cox
2000-11-29  2:24         ` Kiril Vidimce
2000-11-29  2:32           ` Alan Cox
2000-11-29  2:48             ` Kiril Vidimce
2000-11-29  9:37               ` Yoann Vandoorselaere
2000-11-29  3:12             ` Kiril Vidimce
2000-11-29 13:13             ` Android
2000-11-29 14:34               ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-29 16:57           ` James Simmons

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