linux 3d applications keep crashing

[Roman Divacky]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:58:04AM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Michal Varga wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Alexander Best
> ><alexbestms at math.uni-muenster.de> wrote:
> >>thanks for the hint. setting compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2 works. :-) 
> >>settings compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.20 let's quake4 crash with the 
> >>very same error message when using compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16.
> >>
> >Ah, I missed the .20 part. I think "2.4.2" and "2.6.16" are the magic 
> >words to flip 2.4/2.6 linuxulators, as far as I know there should be 
> >no other sub-versions doing anything specific (yes, too lazy to check 
> >sources). I'd assume that setting 2.4.20 just enables the default 
> >path, that is 2.6 on -CURRENT.
> 
> Setting 2.4.20 and greater flips a switch in the linker to use NPTL as 
> opposed to LinuxThreads (old threading library).
> 
> Here are some good links about the different versions and how they can 
> be changed for execution of a program:
> http://my.opera.com/onyxluo/blog/2008/10/15/metalink-note-433292-1-ld-assume-kernel-environment-variable
> http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

we dont support this