Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 20:26 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> 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. >> >> -- > > Kevin, > > If you're using the OSS driver - I'd suggest you file a bug report in Fedora and/or upstream X.org. fglrx is *not* the OSS driver. Its the AMD/ATI proprietary driver. > - Gilboa > -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
