Google Earth

[Karl Larsen]

Antonio M wrote:
> 2008/1/6, Tanguy Eric <eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr>:
>   
>> Le dimanche 06 janvier 2008 à 15:19 -0200, Martin Marques a écrit :
>>     
>>> Duane Clark escribió:
>>>       
>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>>     To be exactly right the video card is made by Nvidia and will not
>>>>> work at all well unless I get the Linux driver software which in my
>>>>> case is in a bash file from the Nvidia web page. Everything else seems
>>>>> to work fine and I seem to have some 3D effects as expected.
>>>>>
>>>>>     I have a F7 system on this computer and I will try GoogleEarth there.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I believe that the driver from the Nvidia page is probably the same one
>>>> supplied by Livna. I notice that the Nvidia page says that the Version
>>>> is "169.07" and my system reports:
>>>>
>>>> # rpm -qi kmod-nvidia
>>>> Name        : kmod-nvidia  Relocations: (not relocatable)
>>>> Version     : 169.07         Vendor: rpm.livna.org
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> What???
>>>
>>> I'm shocked! kmod-nvidia (which is just a meta-package) is at version
>>> 169.07, but all the real packages are at older versiones. Why?
>>>
>>> # yum list | grep kmod-nvidia
>>> kmod-nvidia-96xx.x86_64                  96.43.01-1.2.6.23.12_5 installed
>>> kmod-nvidia-96xx.x86_64                  96.43.01-19.lvn8       installed
>>> kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64  96.43.01-19.lvn8       installed
>>> kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.24-0.133.rc6.git8.f 96.43.01-16.fc8        installed
>>> kmod-nvidia.x86_64                       169.07-1.lvn8          livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.x86_64       100.14.19-17.lvn8      livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.1-49.fc8.x86_64       100.14.19-18.lvn8      livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64       100.14.19-19.lvn8      livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64       169.07-1.lvn8          livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.x86_64  96.43.01-16.lvn8       livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.23.1-49.fc8.x86_64  96.43.01-17.lvn8       livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-96xx-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64  96.43.01-18.lvn8       livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-legacy.x86_64                71.86.01-18.lvn8       livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-legacy-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.x86_6 71.86.01-15.lvn8       livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-legacy-2.6.23.1-49.fc8.x86_6 71.86.01-16.lvn8       livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-legacy-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_6 71.86.01-17.lvn8       livna
>>> kmod-nvidia-legacy-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_6 71.86.01-18.lvn8       livna
>>>
>>>       
>> kmod-nvidia-legacy and kmod-nvidia-96xx are for old hardware (still
>> build for current kernels). The up to date package is kmod-nvidia which
>> is no more a metapackage than the other ones.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
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>>     
> for your info, GEarth crashes on my F9 rawhide system using intel driver...
> Exactly, system crashes and user is logged out and computer re-start
> at login screen.
>
> Any idea???
>
>   
    It sounds to me since it does the same thing on F7 and F8 that there 
might be a problem with google-earth. It might be that it is designed to 
work in the ubuntu operating system.


Karl


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