f13: nouveau driver vs google earth

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 15:13:15 +0200,
  Chris Rouch <chris.rouch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But now I see that compositing is disabled. If I switch from opengl to
> xrender in the desktop effects setting then some of the effect work
> again, but a lot of them don't (e.g. the desktop cube doesn't). This
> all worked previously with the proprietary nvidia driver from
> rpmfusion. Is this a limitation of the nouveau driver or is there
> something else I need to do.

There is only limited 3D support by Nouveau. So most likely you have run
into a driver limitation.