Re: Google Earth



On 05Jan2008 15:10, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I saw where one had trouble with this application so decided to get it
and run it on my F8. I installed it in my user's space and when I clicked
on the earth on my Desktop the screen will go blank and then come back up
in init 3. I would have re-login. This is not nice.

I reloaded it as root and it does the exact same thing :-)

Guess I better tell Google.

It may just blow the mind of your machine. It needs a fair bit of memory
and decent 3d support (OpenGL). It sounds like its crashing your X
server, which is arguably a bug in the X server, not google earth.
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