Verify nouveau issue

Fred Erickson fredferickson at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 09:36:10 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 16:23 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I only have one system with nVidia display hardware.  Currently running
> F16 and nouveau since I've not yet gotten the courage to install the
> nVidia drivers.  :-)
> 
> I'm looking for someone running F16 with the nVidia drivers and Google
> Earth.  To verify the following...
> 
> If you go to 25 3.300 N, 121 33.257 E and under "More" in the Layers
> section have the "Local Place Names" checked, you should see a red dot
> and the word Songshan and beside it 松山區 in Traditional Chinese.
> 
> I believe that with the nVidia drivers the Chinese is displayed.  With
> nouveau it isn't...at least not on my system.
> 
> Thanks....

I have f16 (32bit) with nVidia hardware & default nouveau. I see the
word Songshan with the red dot and no Chinese characters. If I hover the
mouse over the name MR.WISH is displayed. Install was from Live CD with
no extra language packs added.

Fred





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