Re: sigill (illegal instruction) in latest nvidia 169.12 in lenny



Hi David,

On 2008-05-03 20:50 +0200, David Fox wrote:

But the GL code (which I suspect is nvidia-glx) doesn't work anymore.
Even things like glxgears fail now with "illegal instruction".

Have a look at the documentation under
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.txt.gz and at bug #462429¹ how to
disable instructions your processor does not have.

HTH,
Sven


¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462429


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