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

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

reassign 218408 nvidia-glx
thanks

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:11:16AM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de> writes:
> 
> > 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)
> 
> Ah, this is a bug in nvidia-glx.  The package only includes 
> 
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.4496
> /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.4496
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.4496
> 
> it does NOT include
> 
> /usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1.0.4496
> /usr/lib/tls/libGLcore.so.1.0.4496
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/tls/libglx.so.1.0.4496
> 
> from the upstream release.  Installing the tls libs manually fixes
> both problems described above.

Thanks, reassigning.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer