Problems with nv driver

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:41, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>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.
>
Additional info: it doesn't work, tending to miss-draw and freeze when 
running on an ati-9200SE using the kernels radeon 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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