On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:36, Lonni J Friedman wrote: >On 11/7/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:41, Lonni J Friedman wrote: >> >On 11/7/06, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I have an nVidia GeForce4 440 Go in my laptop and I use the nv >> >> driver on Fedora Core 6, recently upgraded (fresh install) from FC5. >> >> >> >> With this combination, googleearth is slow as molasses. On FC5 it >> >> was maybe a bit slow, but still perfectly usable, but on FC6 it's >> >> totally unusable. I basically get complete screen redraws one after >> >> the other while googleearth is zooming (well, trying to zoom) >> >> around. >> >> >> >> What happened between FC5 and FC6 to cause this? Is there anything >> >> I can do to improve things? >> > >> >I'd expect googleearth to be slow with the nv driver. >> >> Additional info: it doesn't work, tending to miss-draw and freeze when >> running on an ati-9200SE using the kernels radeon driver. > >What does the radeon driver have to do with the problem using the nv > driver? > None, I was simply adding a data point in case someone was going to waste some time trying. Tain't worth the effort to dl it here. Some folks might like to be forewarned. To others, this post is noise, sorry. -- 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) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
