Google Earth for x86_64?

[Max Pyziur]

> On 08/02/2009 03:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 15:19 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
>>> Any chance of there being a version of Google Earth for x86_64 that
>>> doesn't freeze X?
>>
>> It's not Google Earth, it's the blasted Intel driver. The current one
>> breaks when using OpenGL (the Mesa library). I've reported this, as have
>> other people, but had no reaction so far.
>
> It also happens with the radeon driver as well....
>
> Whether or not the drivers support or don't support 3D, it shouldn't
> cause X to hang.  It takes out both the mouse movement and the keyboard
> with it.  I can still see disk activity, so I can only assume that my
> direct interface to the laptop is useless when this happens.  It would
> be nice if I could at least change to another VT and bag X....

Given the fact that it takes out the keyboard and the mouse and all
activity stops onscreen, I remotely ssh from another box to reboot the
machine.

fyi,

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com

>> Feel free to add your comments at:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510948
>>
>> It's beyond a joke that this should be so completely broken. Some people
>> have had luck downgrading to the previous stable version ("yum downgrade
>> mesa\*") but YYMV of course.
>>
>> poc
>
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