googleearth shutdown X server

Mark Knoop mark at opus11.net
Mon Jun 11 16:55:58 UTC 2007


Claude Jones wrote:
> 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

That entry just runs glxinfo - do you get the crash running 'glxinfo' in
a terminal (unprivileged user)?

Try also (as root):

chkconfig --list nvidia
service nvidia status

-- 
Mark Knoop




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