libnvidia-tls.so.1: cannot handle TLS data

[svenk]

Hello,
[Note: I don't know if this is the right forum for my question but if not, an admin may move it... ]

Because i wanted hardware rendering of my graphic card (a real old nvidia tnt 2) I took some gentoo-manuals and emerged nvidia-kernel && nvidia-glx. The module worked quite well, then i tried to start opengl-update to make openGL using the nvidia-module, but it failed because my X11 was too old.

After updating Xorg-X11 yesterday (it took 3 hours...) I tried to start opengl-update, but it failed like some other programs that seem to use openGL:

[moocha]

Have you recently upgraded linux-headers without immediately afterwards recompiling glibc? If yes, re-emerge glibc ASAP. Never, ever switch linux-headers versions without also immediately re-emerging glibc.
Alternatively - are you running a glibc that supports NPTL? If no, try that.
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[svenk]

Hello moocha,

I recently update my (complete!) linux-kernel, and I always compile it on my own - no binary sources

Should I recompile glibc after compiling the kernel? Afaik I've never updatet glibc...

hm
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[moocha]

I said linux-headers. Is /usr/include/linux a symlink into /usr/src on your system? If yes, bad, bad, bad - never ever do that.
Please review what I asked - but if you have never re-emerged glibc and you have at least once upgraded linux-headers, it'd be time for a glibc re-emerge.
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[svenk]

[moocha]

So far so good. You need to configure the X server though. Did you add the glx module to the Module section in xorg.conf and *removed* the dri module? They conflict.
See the relevant section of the Gentoo Nvidia Guide on how to do that (but don't add the VideoRam line shown there, it's a silly idea since the driver can identify the amount of video RAM just fine on pretty much any board on the face of the planet).
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[svenk]

[nbrinza]

I've encountered exactly the same problem, and my card is pretty old too -- a nVidia Vanta.

After I've emerged the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, configured xorg.conf, and made a couple of ol' style reboots, the graphics accelerator fired up, and I happily observed a two-fold increase of the glxgear FPS count. To ensure the victory, I run glxinfo - it worked at that time - and to my disappointment, direct rendering was not enabled, it read "no". It was due to the following:

[moocha]

TLS = Thread-Local Storage. Has to do with glibc's threading libraries - the old one (LinuxThreads) versus the new one (NPTL). Newer drivers tend to break backwards compatibility once in a while. Don't use new drivers for old cards - you'll gain nothing since they're optimized for new cards, and you'll run into problems such as these. I'm running 1.0.6111 on my GeForce4 MX440.
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[svenk]

Hello nbrinza,

yeah, I also have a really old card (TNT 2), and firstly glxinfo also worked, it said "direct rendering not enabled". After re-emerging xorg-x11, I got this error you got now .
Yesterday I remerged glibc && linux-headers, and now I don't get this error anymore, but it's still working - don't know why he doesn't like my glx-module...

Sven
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