Problems with nv driver

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/7/06, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:
> I have an nVidia GeForce4 440 Go in my laptop and I use the nv driver on
> Fedora Core 6, recently upgraded (fresh install) from FC5.
>
> With this combination, googleearth is slow as molasses.  On FC5 it was
> maybe a bit slow, but still perfectly usable, but on FC6 it's totally
> unusable.  I basically get complete screen redraws one after the other
> while googleearth is zooming (well, trying to zoom) around.
>
> What happened between FC5 and FC6 to cause this?  Is there anything I
> can do to improve things?

I'd expect googleearth to be slow with the nv driver.

>
> The version of googleearth is the same in both cases: Google Earth for
> GNU/Linux 4.0.2091.
>
> I have tried various binary drivers from nVidia, but they give even less
> joy: the latest beta (9626) gives me a completely black screen, even
> with the patch that nVidia provided.  Version 7184 can be made to run,
> but then googleearth complains about GLX not being available (this is
> because the X server says that GLX and the Composite extension are not
> compatible).  I forget what was the problem with 8776, but there was a
> problem there as well.

You might want to try 1.0-9629 (released today).


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