googleearth shutdown X server

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 10 June 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Sunday 10 June 2007, zhu blue wrote:
>>hi,
>>after upgraded from FC6 to FC7,my googleearth can't work any more.
>>whenever I started googleearth at terminal using command "googleearth
>>&",
>>it will shutdown my X server and I have to use "startx" command to
>>restart x again.
>>
>>I guess it is because Nvidia driver and FC7 problem.
>
>I don't think that's an F7 exclusive, its doing it to me for googleearth,
>celestia, and stellarium for the last week or so.  I'm on FC6.
>
>Has anyone tried the newest NVIDIA driver, its no longer marked as beta.
>
Yeah, I know, its poor form to answer ones own posts, but yes, the latest 
driver fixes all that, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.09-pkg1.run from the nvidia 
web page.

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>Cheers, Gene
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