On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 12:16 -0500, Ray Curtis wrote: > Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > 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 > Go ahead Done. Bugzilla bug is 1722. http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1722 Cheers, Chris -- ==================================================== In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. --Yogi Berra