Jim Cornette wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
It sounds to me since it does the same thing on F7 and F8 that
there might be a problem with google-earth. It might be that it is
designed to work in the ubuntu operating system.
Karl
Since the program demands high performance 3D graphics it challenges
poorly advancing driver within the current X server.
It worked fine for the ati driver for me until the driver was broken
in development.
I could not see that Google Earth is the problem. The screensavers
used to challenge the X server for performance and now are written
off. Maybe Ubuntu takes the challenges produced by X server errors
more seriously and develop better X server qualities.
Just my view,
Jim
It seemed that the state of your glxinfo | grep direct is important
to Google Earth. On my damaged F8 that request caused a reboot. On this
good F7 it works fine. I will try to load the software again since it is
still on my Desktop :-)
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