Re: [gentoo-hardened] GLX and PaX small problem

[Ned Ludd]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 10:10, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> Hi All,
> Really not a big problem, if problem at all but it's real.
> For some time couldn't get GLX to work with my nvidia-GF4-440 video
> card.
> Initially had to recompile the kernel with the 'new' GCC-3.4.x so
> nvidia-kernel could load, that solved.
> The problem is that when running 'glxinfo' or 'glxgears' (as root) PaX
> kills them (in dmesg output).

Those pesky two programs. I had to hack the ebuild myself to disable the
building of those two programs just to get xorg to compile. I was not
aware pother users were encountering the same problem.

As far as runtime with glx* it's expected that it's going to misbehave
by it's very nature under a non-exec setup.

> Not really a problem for me because i don't play games or play once in
> two-three months period but wish to have GLX ready and working.
> Don't even 'think' to complain as i'm running hardened with full
> PaX&grsec2 and have to pay some price, prefer hardened to GLX :)
> Also using patched Xorg-X11-6.8.0-r1, nvidia-kernel loads and works OK.
> Now remember to ask also about xorg-x11 'dlloader' USE-flag, saw in one
> 'famous' :) bug it's working now, some feedback?
> Just wanna ask weather to file a bug or not.
-- 
Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo (hardened,security,infrastructure,embedded,toolchain) Developer