Re: [PyMOL] Warning: Nvidia 6111 drivers for linux

[Michael B. <mb...@de...>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:12:11PM +0200, Pet...@ce... wrote:
> According to a thread on PyKDE, "The tls (thread local storage) stuff only
> works if you are running a tls-enabled glibc on a 2.6 kernel, and when
> installing nvidia-glx, you are normally asked by debconf on what to use."
> 
> This suggests anyone running the new nvidia drivers on a 2.4.x kernel may
> encounter this problem. Admittedly, I haven't tested them on a 2.6.x kernel, so
> I can't be sure the problem doesn't occur there either.

AFAIK, Debian's glibc uses tls/nptl only on Linux-2.6, not on Linux-2.4.
So using a 2.6 kernel should be fine. However, I do not have Nvidia
hardware to test this.


cheers,

Michael