Google Earth or crappy X server

[Karl Larsen]

Jim Cornette 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.
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>
> Since the program demands high performance 3D graphics it challenges 
> poorly advancing driver within the current X server.
> It worked fine for the ati driver for me until the driver was broken 
> in development.
> I could not see that Google Earth is the problem. The screensavers 
> used to challenge the X server for performance and now are written 
> off. Maybe Ubuntu takes the challenges produced by X server errors 
> more seriously and develop better X server qualities.
>
> Just my view,
>
> Jim
>
    It seemed that the state of your  glxinfo | grep direct is important 
to Google Earth. On my damaged F8 that request caused a reboot. On this 
good F7 it works fine. I will try to load the software again since it is 
still on my Desktop :-)

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