Google earth on FC6
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Jun 8 18:29:30 UTC 2007
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
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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