On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 20:26 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Steven Stern wrote: > > 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. > > I have similar problems on my FC6 Radeon Mobility X1600 laptop. Google > earth runs the first time, but not the 2nd without restarting the > X-server. It hangs my X-server hard. I have to network in just to > restart the X-server. If I just kill the GoogleEarth program, the whole > machine locks up soon thereafter. But not if I kill/restart the X > server (fglrx). > > On my FC5 desktop with an old GeForce 2 MX400 nVidia card, it was rock > solid, running 1st time, every time. I have not yet tried it since I > updated it from FC5 to F8. > > -- Kevin, If you're using the OSS driver - I'd suggest you file a bug report in Fedora and/or upstream X.org. - Gilboa
