On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, October 19, 2012 05:44:14 AM Ned Slider wrote: > > On 19/10/12 02:36, fred smith wrote: > > > that all makes perfect sense, except,... why did everything ELSE > > > still work? (I admit to not having tried any of the GL screensaver > > > demos, or any high-end GL games...) > > > Only applications using OpenGL would be affected. > > > If you want to test for yourself, try running 'glxgears'. > > GoogleEarth is another good test case, as it stresses the driver pretty hard. yup, it sure does. However I didn't think of it being only a GL problem until afterr I had already reinstalled Nvidia stuff. but I imagine it's pretty likely that any of those proggies would have tripped over the same problem. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos