Google Earth

[Karl Larsen]

Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> On 2008-01-10 22:14, Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>>>    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.
>
> I have seen this happen.  The problem was, the nVidia GL library was 
> overwritten by the system GL library causing a fatal (for X) 
> incompatibility as soon as GL was touched by the X server (e.g. when 
> running googleearth of glxinfo).  This can happen when the Fedora GL 
> library is upgraded or reinstalled after the nVidia driver was 
> installed.  This can happen when you use the nVidia installer, but not 
> when you use a packaged RPM (I recommend freshrpms.net since it does 
> not need to be updated when there is a kernel update).
>
    Since A. I just got a new kernel in F7 as we write, and B. I can't 
can't get anything from freshrpms.net because I do not know how to. C. 
would a rpm there work on F7?

Karl


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