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

[Dirk Kostrewa]

Hi,

 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.

Yes, I'm using the Nvidia driver 1.0-6111 on a Debain Sarge with the 2.6.7 
kernel without any problems.

Best regards,

Dirk.

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

[Peter Dudek]

Chen,

Kernel: 2.4.26 (I observe the same with 2.4.25)
Distribution: Debian (straight SARGE, and pymol was acquired with apt-get, so
no
funny compiling business here)
Python: 2.3 (2.4 is also there, but only for testing purposes)

I've noticed on other mailing lists, that people have reported similar error
messages with other packages. This is how I found the original solutions. I
just wanted to report that it also occurs with Pymol. Perhaps you are right,
perhaps it's a python problem, but I'm not prepared to roll back to 2.2 to test
it.

 What Linux are you using? Seems it's not a problem on RedHat linux, I am 
 running both 7.3 and EL-AS, with 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 kernel respectively, 
 and the exact same NVIDIA version without any problem at all.
 Although we are using python2.2, looks like you are using python2.3, maybe 
 that's the problem?
 
 Best
 Chen

Robert, 

According to what I've managed to learn from googling around a bit, this
problem
doesn't occur on 2.6.x kernels.

 I'm running Fedora Core 2 with:
 (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation
 compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.6111

 And:
 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

 With no problems whatsover...
 
 Robert

Well, I'm glad to hear this problem isn't as endemic for Pymol users as I had
feared. What surprised me was that it happened on a fresh Debian install. The
solutions I had posted earlier *do* solve the problem (they did for me), so
hopefully the information will be useful to some people who encounter it. 

Regards,
Peter  

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

[Michael Banck]

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