Google Earth

[Karl Larsen]

Antonio M wrote:
> 2008/1/10, Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com>:
>   
>> -------- Original Message  --------
>> Subject: Google Earth
>> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
>> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: 01/10/2008 09:16 AM
>>
>>     
>>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>>    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.
>>>>>           
>>>> You need to put :-) at the end of your sentences when you are making a
>>>> joke.  Otherwise some people may actually take you seriously.
>>>>
>>>> Google Earth is working just fine for me under RHELv4, RHELv5, and F8.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>    No Joke. This software will not run on MY F8. I wonder what you did
>>> to your F8 to make it work?
>>>
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Does
>>
>> $ glxinfo | grep direct
>> direct rendering: Yes
>>
>> Say "Yes" for you?
>>
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>
> $ glxinfo | grep direct
> direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting
> LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
>
> and it is working with nv driver in FC9 rawhide :-)
>
>   
    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.


Karl

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