Google Earth

[Chris Jones]

>    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.

Hate to tell you, but if running glxinfo causes your machine to drop to 
init 3 (i.e. X dies) then your system is terminally unwell. This is not 
normal.

If I recall correctly you have installed the nvidia driver yourself, 
using the nvidia installer ? I would suggest this is screwed up.

Chris