[OpenIndiana-discuss] warning: new thunberbird crashes nvidia and nvidia-470 (works with nvidia-390)

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 04.10.23 um 18:26 schrieb Alan Coopersmith:
> On 10/3/23 23:19, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
>> After updating thunderbird to the latest version 115.3.1 I have
>> experienced instant crashes using either nvidia(-535) or nvidia-470
>> drivers.
>> Going back to -390 makes thunderbird usable again. Thus, the problem
>> seems to be located at the newer NVIDIA drivers.
>
> When our nvidia expert looked into it, he found the 115.x version of
> Firefox
> & Thunderbird were mixing OpenGL & EGL calls in a way that works with
> Mesa
> but not the Nvidia drivers, and applied a workaround to stop it from
> using
> EGL for now to avoid that:
>
> https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches/firefox-115-glx-only.patch
>
>
>     -alan-
Alain, thanks again for this valuable information. It fixed the problems
I had with the new thunderbird.

Best regards,
Andrea