Claude Jones wrote: > I tried to find those instructions - I just looked again - I guess I should > have used google, because it's not easy to find from the google earth page, > or else my mental episode is bigger than I thought Or, it is late in the day for you. > Anyhow, thanks, that did it. I did follow them exactly as written, and it > ended up installing itself in my download directory - I suppose that's > because I didn't do it as root - but, the instrux said nothing about that. No > matter - it's working much better than it ever did - FC6 and a new NVIDIA > card with the latest driver - very impressive. Previous tries would yield > maps with huge black areas in them, parts of maps would 'break off' and > scatter themselves randomly about the screen, and when I'd try to zoom in to > a location, it would generally just go gray. All those problems have > vanished. Ooopsss, you used the dirty word of the day. :-) > By the way, I once lived in Taipei - up on Yang min san (sp?) mountain... Ahhh, Yangmingshan! To be up there now. I live in the heat, errr heart, of the city. It is warm, but low humidity, 33C here now. Up on Yangmingshan it is a cool 23C. Regards, Ed -- Bachelor: A man who chases women and never Mrs. one.