I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to get
it and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and when I
clicked on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank and then
come back up in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not nice.


I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-)

Guess I better tell Google.

Karl

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On 05Jan2008 15:10, Karl Larsen <k5di@zianet.com> wrote:
> I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to get it
> and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and when I clicked
> on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank and then come back up
> in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not nice.
>
> I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-)
>
> Guess I better tell Google.

It may just blow the mind of your machine. It needs a fair bit of memory
and decent 3d support (OpenGL). It sounds like its crashing your X
server, which is arguably a bug in the X server, not google earth.
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Cameron Simpson wrote:

On 05Jan2008 15:10, Karl Larsen <k5di@zianet.com> wrote:

I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to get it
and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and when I clicked
on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank and then come back up
in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not nice.


I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-)

Guess I better tell Google.



It may just blow the mind of your machine. It needs a fair bit of memory
and decent 3d support (OpenGL). It sounds like its crashing your X
server, which is arguably a bug in the X server, not google earth.

It's the only thing that has ever done this. I have 2 gig of RAM and
lots of hard drive space. The X-server is Nvidia and it might not like
what Google is asking for.


Karl


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On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 15:54 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > On 05Jan2008 15:10, Karl Larsen <k5di@zianet.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to get it
> >> and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and when I clicked
> >> on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank and then come back up
> >> in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not nice.
> >>
> >> I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-)
> >>
> >> Guess I better tell Google.
> >>
> >
> > It may just blow the mind of your machine. It needs a fair bit of memory
> > and decent 3d support (OpenGL). It sounds like its crashing your X
> > server, which is arguably a bug in the X server, not google earth.
> >
> It's the only thing that has ever done this. I have 2 gig of RAM and
> lots of hard drive space. The X-server is Nvidia and it might not like
> what Google is asking for.
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Karl Larsen wrote:

Cameron Simpson wrote:

On 05Jan2008 15:10, Karl Larsen <k5di@zianet.com> wrote:

I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to get it
and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and when I clicked
on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank and then come back up
in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not nice.


I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-)

Guess I better tell Google.


It may just blow the mind of your machine. It needs a fair bit of memory
and decent 3d support (OpenGL). It sounds like its crashing your X
server, which is arguably a bug in the X server, not google earth.

It's the only thing that has ever done this. I have 2 gig of RAM and
lots of hard drive space. The X-server is Nvidia and it might not like
what Google is asking for.




The X-server is Nvidia? Do you mean the video driver you are using is
nvidia (the video driver is not the X server)? I am using the Nvidia
driver supplied by Livna, kmod-nvidia, on an F7 system with a GeForce
7900 GS, and Google earth works quite well.


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Karl Larsen wrote:

Cameron Simpson wrote:

On 05Jan2008 15:10, Karl Larsen <k5di@zianet.com> wrote:

I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to get it
and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and when I clicked
on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank and then come back up
in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not nice.


I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-)

Guess I better tell Google.


It may just blow the mind of your machine. It needs a fair bit of memory
and decent 3d support (OpenGL). It sounds like its crashing your X
server, which is arguably a bug in the X server, not google earth.

It's the only thing that has ever done this. I have 2 gig of RAM and
lots of hard drive space. The X-server is Nvidia and it might not like
what Google is asking for.


Do you mean the video driver is Nvidia (the video driver is different
from the X server)? I use the livna Nvidia driver, kmod-nvidia, on an F7
system with a GeForce 7900 GS video card, and Google earth works quite well.


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Duane Clark wrote:

Karl Larsen wrote:

Cameron Simpson wrote:

On 05Jan2008 15:10, Karl Larsen <k5di@zianet.com> wrote:

I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to
get it and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and
when I clicked on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank
and then come back up in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not
nice.


I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-)

Guess I better tell Google.

It may just blow the mind of your machine. It needs a fair bit of
memory

and decent 3d support (OpenGL). It sounds like its crashing your X
server, which is arguably a bug in the X server, not google earth.

It's the only thing that has ever done this. I have 2 gig of RAM
and lots of hard drive space. The X-server is Nvidia and it might not
like what Google is asking for.


Do you mean the video driver is Nvidia (the video driver is different
from the X server)? I use the livna Nvidia driver, kmod-nvidia, on an
F7 system with a GeForce 7900 GS video card, and Google earth works
quite well.


To be exactly right the video card is made by Nvidia and will not
work at all well unless I get the Linux driver software which in my case
is in a bash file from the Nvidia web page. Everything else seems to
work fine and I seem to have some 3D effects as expected.


I have a F7 system on this computer and I will try GoogleEarth there.

Karl


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Karl Larsen wrote:
To be exactly right the video card is made by Nvidia and will not
work at all well unless I get the Linux driver software which in my case
is in a bash file from the Nvidia web page. Everything else seems to
work fine and I seem to have some 3D effects as expected.


I have a F7 system on this computer and I will try GoogleEarth there.



I believe that the driver from the Nvidia page is probably the same one
supplied by Livna. I notice that the Nvidia page says that the Version
is "169.07" and my system reports:


# rpm -qi kmod-nvidia
Name : kmod-nvidia Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 169.07 Vendor: rpm.livna.org

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On 01/05/2008 06:11 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
| Duane Clark wrote:
|> Karl Larsen wrote:
|>> Cameron Simpson wrote:
|>>> On 05Jan2008 15:10, Karl Larsen <k5di@zianet.com> wrote:
|>>>
|>>>> I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to
|>>>> get it and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and
|>>>> when I clicked on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank
|>>>> and then come back up in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not
|>>>> nice.
|>>>>
|>>>> I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-)
|>>>>
|>>>> Guess I better tell Google.
|>>>>
|>>> It may just blow the mind of your machine. It needs a fair bit of
|>>> memory
|>>> and decent 3d support (OpenGL). It sounds like its crashing your X
|>>> server, which is arguably a bug in the X server, not google earth.
|>>>
|>> It's the only thing that has ever done this. I have 2 gig of RAM
|>> and lots of hard drive space. The X-server is Nvidia and it might not
|>> like what Google is asking for.
|>
|> Do you mean the video driver is Nvidia (the video driver is different
|> from the X server)? I use the livna Nvidia driver, kmod-nvidia, on an
|> F7 system with a GeForce 7900 GS video card, and Google earth works
|> quite well.
|>
| To be exactly right the video card is made by Nvidia and will not
| work at all well unless I get the Linux driver software which in my case
| is in a bash file from the Nvidia web page. Everything else seems to
| work fine and I seem to have some 3D effects as expected.
|
| I have a F7 system on this computer and I will try GoogleEarth there.

I don't think it's an NVidia thing. I'm getting very flaky stuff and I
have an ATI Radeon card (using the default Fedora drivers). GoogleEarth
starts, but it disappears, or flickers uncontrollably or, as just
happened, locked the system up requiring a power cycle. It worked well
on F7, but has not worked well at all on F8.


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Steven Stern wrote:
> I don't think it's an NVidia thing. I'm getting very flaky stuff and I
> have an ATI Radeon card (using the default Fedora drivers). GoogleEarth
> starts, but it disappears, or flickers uncontrollably or, as just
> happened, locked the system up requiring a power cycle. It worked well
> on F7, but has not worked well at all on F8.

I have similar problems on my FC6 Radeon Mobility X1600 laptop. Google
earth runs the first time, but not the 2nd without restarting the
X-server. It hangs my X-server hard. I have to network in just to
restart the X-server. If I just kill the GoogleEarth program, the whole
machine locks up soon thereafter. But not if I kill/restart the X
server (fglrx).

On my FC5 desktop with an old GeForce 2 MX400 nVidia card, it was rock
solid, running 1st time, every time. I have not yet tried it since I
updated it from FC5 to F8.

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