Bug#218408: libc6 2.3.2.ds1-8 breaks NVidia's driver

[Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>]

Harald Dunkel <harri@synopsys.com> writes:

> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-8
>
> After upgrading glibc in Sid to version 2.3.2.ds1-8 the NVidia
> driver for XFree86 did not work anymore. Instead of the usual
> splash screen I got a white screen with just a few horizontal
> lines, then the screen was frozen.

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 works around the problem.

There's another problem with the NVIDIA drivers.  When libc6-i686 is
installed all OGL applications crash.  Removing libc-i686 or using
LD_PRELOAD="/lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 /lib/tls/libc.so.6" works around
this problem.  (Removing libc6-i686 doesn't fix the X startup problem
mentioned above, only using the the non-tls libs helps there)


        Juergen

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