Google Earth anyone?

[JD]

On 06/10/2011 06:32 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Before moving to F15 I was running F11 with the nVidia drivers.
>
> With the current kernel and nVidia drivers the X server will lock up
> with 100% cpu usage when Google Earth is started....at least my system.
>
> Now, one of the problems I am seeing with GE and nouveau is font
> related.  GE doesn't render Chinese.
> (This worked fine on F11 with nVidia.)
>
> If you open GE and visit the location in the attached kml file (hope it
> makes it) can anyone see Chinese text after clicking on some of the
> "Places" display in the area?  (121.55910 E  25.04826 N)
>
> FWIW, if I right click on one of the places and then "Save to My Places"
> it will save it there...but also no Chinese is displayed.  However, if I
> then save that to a file...the file name is in Chinese and the kml file
> also has Chinese.  Can someone verify this "failure"?
>
> I get the feeling that nVidia must somehow be loading fonts that nouveau
> isn't.  Is there a way to determine what fonts are not being loaded, are
> missing....or?
At least, you "used" to be able to run GE.
With my old radeon 9600/9700 mobility chip,
GE has ALWAYS locked up my PC with EVERY OS release!
So, I uninstalled it.