On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 09:40 -0500, Ray Curtis wrote: > Colin J Thomson wrote: > > On Saturday 17 November 2007 00:22:48 Ray Curtis wrote: > >> After upgrading 7 -> 8 I appear to have a problem using both > >> Picasa and Google Earth. > >> They both kill X on startup and logout, no errors in /var/log/messages. > > > > No real help to you, but Google Earth works fine on this F8 box, fresh install > > from a kde live CD. > > > > Cheers > > > > Colin > > Thanks, but I may have found the problem, now just to figure out how to > correct it. > This all worked fine in FC7 before the upgrade to FC8 > > I see this in /var/log/messages: > > NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 100.14.09, but > NVRM: this kernel module has the version 100.14.19. Please > NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver > NVRM: components have the same version. > > However I have installed: > > rpm -qa |grep nvidia > kmod-nvidia-100.14.19-18.lvn8.x86_64 > kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.1-49.fc8-100.14.19-18.lvn8.x86_64 > kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.1-42.fc8-100.14.19-17.lvn8.x86_64 > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-100.14.19-4.lvn8.x86_64 > > rpm -q kernel > kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.x86_64 > kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8.x86_64 I have the same on both of my systems and also occasionally see X just up and go away. It usually happens with Adobe Reader. I also have problems with GL screen savers - especially now that I have Desktop Effects with some compiz customizations enabled. This sounds like a problem with the Livna RPM versions. Are you going to bugzilla there? If not, I can... Cheers, Chris -- ==================================================== In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. --Yogi Berra
