2008/1/11, Lamar Owen <lowen@xxxxxxxx>: > On Thursday 10 January 2008, 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. > > I'm running Google Earth right now on my F8 system. I didn't have to do > anything special. The system is a Dell Inspiron 640m laptop with Intel > graphics, and Google Earth 'Just Worked' with no extra drivers required. > > On my desktop F8 system, the only difference is that I have an nVidia card (so > that SecondLife will work; we are doing some educational development in SL); > in order to get GoogleEarth to work, I installed the livna nvidia driver, and > it just works. > > The livna RPM of the nVidia driver IS THE NVIDIA DRIVER THAT NVIDIA > DISTRIBUTES; it's just packaged properly for Fedora, and just works (at least > on my hardware). If you use the raw nVidia driver file you will have > problems due to the GL library problem already mentioned; the nVidia raw > driver simply doesn't respect the existing ownership of some files, and, > since it was installed to allow the RPM database to know about that, the next > time that portion of you system is updated the nVidia files will be > overwritten (which will crash the nVidia driver). And, if the nVidia > installer doesn't register those overwritten files with the RPM database, > just exactly how does RPM know to not overwrite when that portion is updated? > This is nVidia's fault for not working with the installed system's package > manager; it's not Fedora's fault. > > The livna crew have made the nVidia distributed binary drivers 'Fedora-fied' > (for lack of a better word) and the system then works correctly. > > Again, the livna nVidia drivers ARE the nVidia written and distributed > drivers, just with the packaging change to allow the nVidia driver to > peacefully coexist with the rest of the system. > > This is one reason that, if at all possible, I try to always use properly RPM > packaged programs rather than try to build from source (there is one major > exception to this rule for me, and that is Plone, since the Plone versioning > is pretty critical, and upgrades aren't necessarily smooth; plus, Zope and > Python 2.5 are not friends yet; in the Plone case I use the plone.org unified > installer, which installs all needed dependencies in a separate tree). If i > install a package that overwrites an RPM-managed file, then I can EXPECT an > upgrade to the package that, according to the RPM database, owns that file, > to cause system breakage. This is basic system administration stuff. > -- > Lamar Owen > www.pari.edu > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > and after latest (this morning) Xorg updates my GoogleEarth didn't work any longer: I am waiting that Firefox will allow me to download again GE and re-install (not sure which version is on my PC...) to see. Any way, I think that the problem is connected to drivers and not to GE. I am using nv driver, now I have same problem, user is immediately loggesd out as soon as it starts GE... -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag
