Google Earth

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 20:26 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> Steven Stern wrote:
>>> I don't think it's an NVidia thing. I'm getting very flaky stuff and I
>>> have an ATI Radeon card (using the default Fedora drivers).  GoogleEarth
>>> starts, but it disappears, or flickers uncontrollably or, as just
>>> happened, locked the system up requiring a power cycle.  It worked well
>>> on F7, but has not worked well at all on F8.
>> I have similar problems on my FC6 Radeon Mobility X1600 laptop.  Google
>> earth runs the first time, but not the 2nd without restarting the
>> X-server.  It hangs my X-server hard.  I have to network in just to
>> restart the X-server.  If I just kill the GoogleEarth program, the whole
>> machine locks up soon thereafter.  But not if I kill/restart the X
>> server (fglrx).
>>
>> On my FC5 desktop with an old GeForce 2 MX400 nVidia card, it was rock
>> solid, running 1st time, every time.  I have not yet tried it since I
>> updated it from FC5 to F8.
>>
>> -- 
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> If you're using the OSS driver - I'd suggest you file a bug report in Fedora and/or upstream X.org.

fglrx is *not* the OSS driver.  Its the AMD/ATI proprietary driver.

> - Gilboa
> 


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