Charlie McVeigh wrote: > Starting about a month ago Goggle Earth started running so slowly that > it is virtually unusable - prior to this I never had any performance > issues with GE. On my dual core system, one CPU tends to stay maxed out > at 100% utilization and it will take 45-60 seconds to display the > startup globe. Once up, zooming in or moving around are so painfully > slow that you just give up and close the application. > > Here are some of my particulars: > > i) Lenvo Thinkpad T61, with Fedora 11 x86_64 up to date. nVIDIA Quadro > NVS 140M graphics with kmod-nvidia drivers up to date. GLXgears = 4379 > frames per second performance. > > ii) I have uninstalled and re-installed Google Earth several times and > I experience the same slowness with both versions 4.3 and 5.1 of Google > Earth. > > iii) Per advice from Googling for suggestions I have turned "atmosphere" > off in GE. > > iv) When starting GE from the command line I get the following Error: > > Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 190.42, > but this NVIDIA driver component has version 190.25. Please make > sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components > have the same version. > > > I am wondering if I have some sort of library mismatch between x86_64 > and i586 versions of RPMs that are installed on my machine. > > Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this problem would be most > appreciated. > > > I believe you will find that "glxinfo | grep rendering" may return "direct rendering: No". If that is the case, then it is telling you the nvidia driver is incorrectly installed and certainly is confirming the Error above. I install the nvidia drivers direct. I don't use kmod-nvidia so I can't really advise you on what is the best method to correct the situation. You may try starting your system in run level 3, removing the kmod-nvidia and then reinstalling.... -- Do students of Zen Buddhism do Om-work? Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
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