On 11/07/2006 08:41 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On 11/7/06, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have an nVidia GeForce4 440 Go in my laptop and I use the nv driver on >> Fedora Core 6, recently upgraded (fresh install) from FC5. >> >> With this combination, googleearth is slow as molasses. On FC5 it was >> maybe a bit slow, but still perfectly usable, but on FC6 it's totally >> unusable. I basically get complete screen redraws one after the other >> while googleearth is zooming (well, trying to zoom) around. >> >> What happened between FC5 and FC6 to cause this? Is there anything I >> can do to improve things? > > I'd expect googleearth to be slow with the nv driver. Yes, but it was usable under FC5 and it is totally unusable under FC6. Both with the nv driver. >> The version of googleearth is the same in both cases: Google Earth for >> GNU/Linux 4.0.2091. >> >> I have tried various binary drivers from nVidia, but they give even less >> joy: the latest beta (9626) gives me a completely black screen, even >> with the patch that nVidia provided. Version 7184 can be made to run, >> but then googleearth complains about GLX not being available (this is >> because the X server says that GLX and the Composite extension are not >> compatible). I forget what was the problem with 8776, but there was a >> problem there as well. > > You might want to try 1.0-9629 (released today). I might indeed. But that will have to wait a few days, I'm afraid. -- Sjoerd Mullender
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