Google Earth

[Karl Larsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:59 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>       
>> Nope it was loading and un-loading pulseaudio that screwed it up. Those 
>> stupid rpm's sent out by Fedora are MADE with the thing I used. You 
>> can't get it in your heads that Nvidia built the video hardware and they 
>> are good enough to provide a driver for both Windows and Linux. If it 
>> doesn't work on Fedora, it's a Fedora problem!
>>     
> ----
> well, when all nVidia ships is closed source and binary form only, how
> would you propose Fedora fix the problem?
>   
    Perhaps if someone good with C and C++ from Fedora talks to Nvidia 
and promise not to give the source code to anyone else you could build a 
Fedora rpm.


> and by the way, you should feel free to check out SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian,
> Gentoo, Mandriva and the vast array of other Linux distributions that
> are available...perhaps their rpm's suck less.
>
>   
    They don't use rpm and yes they may be a lot better. I might look at 
what Debian has. I have apt-get working on my F8.


> Craig
>
>   


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