On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 17:11 -0700, 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. > > Karl You seem to be hitting an nVidia driver bug. I'd suggest you file a bug report in nvnews [1] support forum. - Gilboa [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
