Slackware and Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL)

Originally posted by wpyh I thought NPTL is only for Linux?

Me too, but from what i read, Solaris takes advantage of NPTL too.. But again i say, don't quote me on that.

i'd assume it would work on any POSIX-compliant API... i might be trippin', though...

http://posixcertified.ieee.org/

Originally posted by keefaz As a note, I had problem with X (catch signal 11) after glibc upgrade to 2.3.5 I found that nvidia driver (7174) could not load. I re-installed the nvidia driver with --force-tls=new, that fixed it

take a look at the latest changelog entry:

Mon May 16 15:27:24 PDT 2005 a/glibc-solibs-2.3.5-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled including a patch found in Debian's glibc sources that fixes an issue with TLS that breaks X and XMMS on machines that use nVidia's X drivers. This might also be found in glibc CVS by now, but I'm not sure about that. In any case, if you had problems before and you're using nVidia's drivers, this should fix it. Also, I heard a few reports of trouble with Firefox not working with NPTL -- maybe this will also fix that? a/glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.5-noarch-2.tgz: Rebuilt. l/glibc-2.3.5-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled with TLS fix. l/glibc-i18n-2.3.5-noarch-2.tgz: Rebuilt. l/glibc-profile-2.3.5-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled with TLS fix.

http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386

I upgraded to the new libs, but that is the same, nvidia won't load without
reinstalling it with --force-tls=new
(kernel 2.6.9)

That's odd, I'm using nvidia drivers and have the latest glibc with the fix for dealing with nvidia problems. I had to recomiple the drivers, but didn't need to use --force-tls=new at all.

Maybe you have another problem going on?