nvidia machdep.c patch still useful ?
    Andrew Atrens 
    atrens at nortelnetworks.com
       
    Mon Apr  5 11:17:24 PDT 2004
    
    
  
>     But 5.x's signal handler is resetting %fs, and I think we probably need
>     to leave that part of it in.  Can you test with just the load_gs()
>     removed (leaving the tf_fs = _udatasel intact) ?  It looks like our
>     switch code already handles %gs properly, so I think all that needs
>     to be done is to remove that load_gs().
Just removed the load_gs() and it looks quite solid - no more SEGV's on 
kde application exits :) :)
Thanks,
Andrew.
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