Jim Cornette wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
This is hard to explain, but in a non-root terminal I put
glxinfo | grep direct and my screen went blank, much like it does
with google earth, and after a few seconds I had to reboot from
init level 3!
It appears glxinfo is not working right on my F8.
Hate to tell you, but if running glxinfo causes your machine to drop
to init 3 (i.e. X dies) then your system is terminally unwell. This
is not normal.
If I recall correctly you have installed the nvidia driver yourself,
using the nvidia installer ? I would suggest this is screwed up.
Chris
Nope it was loading and un-loading pulseaudio that screwed it up.
Those stupid rpm's sent out by Fedora are MADE with the thing I used.
You can't get it in your heads that Nvidia built the video hardware
and they are good enough to provide a driver for both Windows and
Linux. If it doesn't work on Fedora, it's a Fedora problem!
Karl
If you would have been on the list back when the installer vs. the
rpms were referred you would know that the NVidia installer puts files
in places already claimed by the X server. The rpm packaged versions
put needed variants in different locations and prevent conflict.
Chris' assumption is probably on cue.
It is doubtful that pulsaudio effected Graphical components.
It is not a Fedora problem, NVidia should relocate files that vary
instead of clobber existing occupied "real estate".
Jim
Well all that said I loaded Googleearth on this F7 after a kernel
upgrade and it runs perfect! The problem can't be the Nvidia. It can be
a lot of other things.
Karl
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