Google Earth

[Jim Cornette]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Steven Stern wrote:
>> I don't think it's an NVidia thing. I'm getting very flaky stuff and I
>> have an ATI Radeon card (using the default Fedora drivers).  GoogleEarth
>> starts, but it disappears, or flickers uncontrollably or, as just
>> happened, locked the system up requiring a power cycle.  It worked well
>> on F7, but has not worked well at all on F8.
> 
> I have similar problems on my FC6 Radeon Mobility X1600 laptop.  Google
> earth runs the first time, but not the 2nd without restarting the
> X-server.  It hangs my X-server hard.  I have to network in just to
> restart the X-server.  If I just kill the GoogleEarth program, the whole
> machine locks up soon thereafter.  But not if I kill/restart the X
> server (fglrx).
> 
> On my FC5 desktop with an old GeForce 2 MX400 nVidia card, it was rock
> solid, running 1st time, every time.  I have not yet tried it since I
> updated it from FC5 to F8.
> 

It works fine with the end of the line ati driver, 
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.7.196-2.fc9. Any later driver locks up in a loop for 
X in general.
I believe the performance is better than with older versions of X or of 
the ati driver (Fedora 7 or 8)

HP ze4300 laptop, ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1 graphics.

Jim

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