[sldev] Crashing on linux with closed NVidia drivers

[Gareth Nelson]

It would seem to be a bug in the drivers triggered by something odd
that SL is doing.
For the record, here's a list of apps which run fine:
epsxe (a playstation emulator)
pcsx    (ditto, but uses same plugin - pete's OpenGL - as epsxe)
pcsx2 (ps2 emulator)
Doom 3
Doom legacy
mplayer OpenGL output (i tested with this specifically)
the redbook samples and a few of the nehe tutorials
Super secret project #2546 (my own code, all I can reveal is it uses
Panda3D and runs inside a firefox plugin)
IMVU under wine
Doom 3: RoE under wine

All these apps run fine, so obviously SL is doing something weird. It
is of course not a bug as such in SL most likely, but quite likely a
bug in the drivers triggered by that weird thing.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com> wrote:
> This kind of crash is cannot be caused by a bug in the viewer imho.
> Maybe by a bug in the graphics libraries, but even then I doubt it.
>
> Likely it's a problem with the kernel module and/or kernel.
> Mismatching versions comes to mind... Ie, make sure you compile
> the nvidia drivers with the same compiler version as the
> kernel, using the correct kernel headers and the correct
> libraries, for the correct (running) kernel version.
>
> --
> Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com>
>



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