Google Earth

[Duane Clark]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 05Jan2008 15:10, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>   
>>>    I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to get it 
>>> and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and when I clicked 
>>> on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank and then come back up 
>>> in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not nice.
>>>
>>>    I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-)
>>>
>>> Guess I better tell Google.
>>>     
>> It may just blow the mind of your machine. It needs a fair bit of memory
>> and decent 3d support (OpenGL). It sounds like its crashing your X
>> server, which is arguably a bug in the X server, not google earth.
>>   
>     It's the only thing that has ever done this. I have 2 gig of RAM and 
> lots of hard drive space. The X-server is Nvidia and it might not like 
> what Google is asking for.

Do you mean the video driver is Nvidia (the video driver is different 
from the X server)? I use the livna Nvidia driver, kmod-nvidia, on an F7 
system with a GeForce 7900 GS video card, and Google earth works quite well.