googleearth shutdown X server

antonio montagnani antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 16:37:18 UTC 2007


2007/6/11, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com>:
> On Monday June 11 2007 10:32:07 am Steve Siegfried wrote:
> > Claude Jones wrote:
> > > On Monday June 11 2007 9:59:14 am antonio montagnani wrote:
> > > > I would disinstall Nvidia driver and re-install it. I hade same issues
> > > > with Googleearth and blender.
> > >
> > > Antonio: I'm not having any issues with googleearth and blender - that's
> > > why I asked the question
> >
> > I had basically the same issues in FC5 (Nvidia driver, googleearth locks
> > up X11). The funny thing was this started roughly a month _after_ I'd
> > installed/upgraded what I thought was the stuff that might have mattered.
> > Up to that point, everything worked just fine.
>
> To reiterate; You're probably responding to other posts in this thread, but,
> you replied to mine. I am NOT having any problems, either with glxgears
> results (around 2800 FPS), Blender, or GoogleEarth. All seems to be well with
> my system; I'm running a P4 2.8 GHz CPU w/1GB of ram, and a nVidia 6200 card
> and the latest nVidia driver from freshrpms. The only issue I'm having is
> when I use the nVidia X server setting configuration utility, and there, the
> only issue seems to be when I query an informational button - the one that's
> labeled "Open GL/GLX Information" - then, and only then, my screen goes black
> and shortly after, returns me to the login screen. --- It sounds and seems
> strange, but that's my story, and I'm sticking to it
>
> --
> Claude Jones
> Levit & James, Inc.
> Leesburg, VA
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I had exactly the same problem (shutdown of server when touching the
OpenGL option),
I disinstalled drivers and reinstalled (have a look at Xorg log file
if any error occurs at GLX driver start-up)

Not my two cents, only one... :-)
-- 
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag




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