Google Earth - NVidia binary

[Jim Cornette]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>>>    This is hard to explain, but in a non-root terminal I put glxinfo 
>>> | grep direct and my screen went blank, much like it does with google 
>>> earth, and after a few seconds I had to reboot from init level 3!
>>>
>>>    It appears glxinfo is not working right on my F8.
>>
>> Hate to tell you, but if running glxinfo causes your machine to drop 
>> to init 3 (i.e. X dies) then your system is terminally unwell. This is 
>> not normal.
>>
>> If I recall correctly you have installed the nvidia driver yourself, 
>> using the nvidia installer ? I would suggest this is screwed up.
>>
>> Chris
>>
> Nope it was loading and un-loading pulseaudio that screwed it up. Those 
> stupid rpm's sent out by Fedora are MADE with the thing I used. You 
> can't get it in your heads that Nvidia built the video hardware and they 
> are good enough to provide a driver for both Windows and Linux. If it 
> doesn't work on Fedora, it's a Fedora problem!
> 
> 
> Karl
> 
> 

If you would have been on the list back when the installer vs. the rpms 
were referred you would know that the NVidia installer puts files in 
places already claimed by the X server. The rpm packaged versions put 
needed variants in different locations and prevent conflict.
Chris' assumption is probably on cue.
It is doubtful that pulsaudio effected Graphical components.

It is not a Fedora problem, NVidia should relocate files that vary 
instead of clobber existing occupied "real estate".

Jim

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