Google Earth

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Sun Jan 6 03:40:00 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 20:26 -0500, 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.
> 
> -- 

Kevin,

If you're using the OSS driver - I'd suggest you file a bug report in Fedora and/or upstream X.org.

- Gilboa




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