On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 22:48 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > 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. > > fglrx is *not* the OSS driver. Its the AMD/ATI proprietary driver. I missed the fglrx part. My bad. - Gilboa
