Re: [Mesa3d-users] Mesa-Glide killing system?

[Daniel V. <vo...@lo...>]

"J. Perkins" wrote:
> 
> I am trying to dynamically load Mesa under Linux using dlopen(), dlsym(),
> etc. On the software, RIVA, and TNT drivers, this works fine. The Glide
> driver runs fine, but on exit my desktop is completely frozen, locked up
> tight. If I statically link to the Mesa-Glide libGL.so, everything works fine.
> 
> I've had a look through the source code to try and pin down this behavior,
> but so far no luck. Does anyone have any idea why I would not be able
> to dynamically load Mesa-Glide? Is there some function that I need to
> call before shutting down that I am perhaps missing? (I am already
> releasing and destroying the context before unloading).
> 
> This is Mesa 3.2 on a more-or-less stock RH6.1 system.
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated,

Try "export MESA_FX_NO_SIGNALS=1" before starting or
putenv("MESA_FX_NO_SIGNALS=1") in your code before dlopen'ing. This will
force Mesa not to install its own signal and atexit handler. I guess the
problem in your case is that upon atexit your Mesa dll is already
unloaded.

-- 
Daniel Vogel
Programmer
Loki Entertainment Software