Google Earth

[Karl Larsen]

Brian Gaynor wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:11 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
>>     
>>> On 2008-01-10 22:14, 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.
>>>>         
>>> I have seen this happen.  The problem was, the nVidia GL library was 
>>> overwritten by the system GL library causing a fatal (for X) 
>>> incompatibility as soon as GL was touched by the X server (e.g. when 
>>> running googleearth of glxinfo).  This can happen when the Fedora GL 
>>> library is upgraded or reinstalled after the nVidia driver was 
>>> installed.  This can happen when you use the nVidia installer, but not 
>>> when you use a packaged RPM (I recommend freshrpms.net since it does 
>>> not need to be updated when there is a kernel update).
>>>
>>>       
>>     Since A. I just got a new kernel in F7 as we write, and B. I can't 
>> can't get anything from freshrpms.net because I do not know how to. C. 
>> would a rpm there work on F7?
>>
>> Karl
>>     
>
> >From the freshrpms.net home page:
>
> "The easiest way to install freshrpms.net packages is to click here from
> within firefox, choose to open with Software Installer (the default)
> then go to Add/Remove Software from the main menu, where new
> applications will be available in the list."
>
> Doesn't get much easier than that. I'm a big fan of the DKMS nvidia
> module if you find you have to have the closed source driver.
>
> - Brian
>
>
>   
    Well of course I have the Nvidia driver and have used it on about 5 
or 6 new kernels with success. But I didn't know I should tell it not to 
update gtk stuff. I will try it tonight when this F7 comes up stupid 
without a good kernel driver. But this time I will make sure all we do 
is make a new kernel driver. See what happens as I drop back to init 3 
without any  GUI running.

Karl
 

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