Google Earth for x86_64?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 16:05 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> 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....

Interesting. Perhaps you could add that to the BZ page. The more
comments the better.

> 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....

For me the mouse cursor keeps moving but that's it. I have to reboot.
Even logging in via ssh from elsewhere and trying to kill X doesn't
work.

poc