No, it's never worked for me. The behaviour has always been the same - splash screen comes up, cpu usage climbs to a steady 50% (on both cores), but no error messages of any kind. It has never hung up the system, though. CTRL-C kills the process easily. -S. <div>On 6/8/07, Kevin J. Cummings <<a href="mailto:cummings@kjchome.homeip.net">cummings@kjchome.homeip.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Sultan Saini wrote: > Direct rendering was already enabled - it was one of the first checks I did > - I should have included that info in my original post. > > In any case, I added the modules section, as you suggested, but with no > luck. OK, so out of dis-belief, I went and fired up googleearth myself. And guess what! It hung! Mouse still worked, but the keyboard was dead. I SSHed in from another computer and discovered that googleearth-bin was eating all the CPU it could. So, I issued a "telinit 3" to shutdown X. No dice (at least nothing visible happened). So, I killed googleearth-bin with a "kill -9" and the whole computer came to a standstill! Time to re-boot. (Arrrrrgh, I hate it when that happens!) Being a glutton for punishment, after the computer rebooted (and I got the wireless up again, took about 13 minutes!) I fired up googleearth again. This time it worked! Go figure. So, it does work, just not reliably. As I recall, my laptop had an uptime of over 9 days before the hang, so I suspect something in the X11 environment gets corrupted after a while causing googleearth to go crazy. Does it work for you either after restarting X or after a reboot? Even once? -- Kevin J. Cummings <a href="mailto:kjchome@rcn.com">kjchome@rcn.com</a> <a href="mailto:cummings@kjchome.homeip.net">cummings@kjchome.homeip.net</a> <a href="mailto:cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us">cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us</a> Registered Linux User #1232 (<a href="http://counter.li.org"> http://counter.li.org</a>) -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div> -- cheers.... ....sultan