On 08/02/2009 03:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 15:19 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: >> Any chance of there being a version of Google Earth for x86_64 that >> doesn't freeze X? > > It's not Google Earth, it's the blasted Intel driver. The current one > breaks when using OpenGL (the Mesa library). I've reported this, as have > other people, but had no reaction so far. It also happens with the radeon driver as well.... Whether or not the drivers support or don't support 3D, it shouldn't cause X to hang. It takes out both the mouse movement and the keyboard with it. I can still see disk activity, so I can only assume that my direct interface to the laptop is useless when this happens. It would be nice if I could at least change to another VT and bag X.... > Feel free to add your comments at: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510948 > > It's beyond a joke that this should be so completely broken. Some people > have had luck downgrading to the previous stable version ("yum downgrade > mesa\*") but YYMV of course. > > poc -- 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 Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
