On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:12:11PM +0200, peter.du...@cellbio.unige.ch 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
