On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 15:54 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 05Jan2008 15:10, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to get it > >> and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and when I clicked > >> on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank and then come back up > >> in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not nice. > >> > >> I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-) > >> > >> Guess I better tell Google. > >> > > > > It may just blow the mind of your machine. It needs a fair bit of memory > > and decent 3d support (OpenGL). It sounds like its crashing your X > > server, which is arguably a bug in the X server, not google earth. > > > It's the only thing that has ever done this. I have 2 gig of RAM and > lots of hard drive space. The X-server is Nvidia and it might not like > what Google is asking for. ---- why not ask nVidia for the source code so it can be fixed? Craig
