I just rebooted my F7 with a new kernel update today and it came back up with the Nvidia working fine. And this is still fine: [karl at k5di ~]$ glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: Yes [karl at k5di ~ So why I wonder did google earth fail? -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org. PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7