googleearth shutdown X server

zhu blue zhu.blue at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 13:32:44 UTC 2007


Thank you, it works for me!

On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 13:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 10 June 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >On Sunday 10 June 2007, zhu blue wrote:
> >>hi,
> >>after upgraded from FC6 to FC7,my googleearth can't work any more.
> >>whenever I started googleearth at terminal using command "googleearth
> >>&",
> >>it will shutdown my X server and I have to use "startx" command to
> >>restart x again.
> >>
> >>I guess it is because Nvidia driver and FC7 problem.
> >
> >I don't think that's an F7 exclusive, its doing it to me for googleearth,
> >celestia, and stellarium for the last week or so.  I'm on FC6.
> >
> >Has anyone tried the newest NVIDIA driver, its no longer marked as beta.
> >
> Yeah, I know, its poor form to answer ones own posts, but yes, the latest 
> driver fixes all that, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.09-pkg1.run from the nvidia 
> web page.
> 
> >--
> >Cheers, Gene
> >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> >Intel Inside, Idiot Outside.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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> 




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