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

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The latest thunderbird update has fixed this problem - many thanks to author(s)!

QP


5 Oct 2023, 07:05 by A.Wacknitz at gmx.de:

> 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
>
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