On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 16:05 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
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....
Interesting. Perhaps you could add that to the BZ page. The more
comments the better.
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....
For me the mouse cursor keeps moving but that's it. I have to reboot.
Even logging in via ssh from elsewhere and trying to kill X doesn't
work.
poc