Google Earth crashing X.org

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:17:20AM -0500, Mike Oliver wrote:
> Dunno; I use KDE.  But if, as you say below, there's nothing
> to be done once the driver crashes, how would it help?

Well if it crashes again and again, but flashes between text mode and
graphics, then if it stopped trying after 5 times and stayted in text
mode, you could actually do something.  If it just crashes and leaves it
in graphics mode without restoring it, then there isn't much that can be
done.

> It appears to be something called
> 
>  Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics
>  Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> 
> I guess that's the hardware -- not sure how to find out about
> the driver.

OK, so one of the very few with opensource openGL drivers.  Not sure how
good those openGL drivers are yet, but at least they are open source and
being worked on.

I know it is being actively developed, so it may get better (and
sometimes worse) by updating the X and kernel versions (the direct
rendering management is in the kernel).

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Len Sorensen
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