On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 10:57 +0000, 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. What kinda video card, how much vram does it have, how much ram do you have on your machine. Processor size. The usual info needed. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================