-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/05/2008 06:11 PM, Karl Larsen wrote: | Duane Clark wrote: |> 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. |> |> Do you mean the video driver is Nvidia (the video driver is different |> from the X server)? I use the livna Nvidia driver, kmod-nvidia, on an |> F7 system with a GeForce 7900 GS video card, and Google earth works |> quite well. |> | To be exactly right the video card is made by Nvidia and will not | work at all well unless I get the Linux driver software which in my case | is in a bash file from the Nvidia web page. Everything else seems to | work fine and I seem to have some 3D effects as expected. | | I have a F7 system on this computer and I will try GoogleEarth there. I don't think it's an NVidia thing. I'm getting very flaky stuff and I have an ATI Radeon card (using the default Fedora drivers). GoogleEarth starts, but it disappears, or flickers uncontrollably or, as just happened, locked the system up requiring a power cycle. It worked well on F7, but has not worked well at all on F8. - -- ~ Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHgCzyeERILVgMyvARAhYQAJwMlHGTLX6eQQWnw6iKaU6V2VcUfgCfaMCB PcY5bMOVK2gQqBDzroTL55M= =Wz8/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
