[AuckLUG] Google Earth re boot problem

[Steve Withers]

SiS drivers for Linux may not be able to handle the 3D needs of GE. I've had
trouble with SiS in the past, though it was several years ago (and your
system appears to be of a similar vintage).

Also, if this is one of those integrated mobos with shared video and system
ram, you might find that turning some of the caching off in your system BIOS
may help. Try one setting at a time to see if any of them make any
difference. I'd start with any caching of the video memory being disabled
rather than enabled as a first look. It should be disabled.

It may be that you just can't get there from here.....but worth trying all
the options short of a new system board / and or video chipset to see if any
work for you.

Just some ideas. I don't know whether they will work or not.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Ron Johns <ronaldj at orcon.net.nz> wrote:

> Scott Newton wrote:
> > On Friday 14 March 2008 14:25, Ron Johns wrote:
> >
> >> Yes indeed, entire system goes right down and restarts ,blackscreen-the
> >> normal udev etc and then the boot in username log in screen.Exactly and
> >> without exception what you could expect if you were running normally
> and
> >> hit the re-boot button.
> >>
> >> Is doing this before and after a full reinstall of my O/S and is
> >> repeatable every time.
> >>
> >
> > What motherboard/cpu/graphics card do you have? And is it a brand name
> or a
> > no-name brand box?
> >
> >
> No name box ,home built...
> CPU Type              AMD Duron, 1311 MHz (13 x
> Motherboard Name      Asus A7S266-VM (4 PCI, 2 SDR DIMM, 2 DDR DIMM,
> Video)
> Motherboard Chipset      SiS 740
> System Memory        480 MB (PC133 SDRAM)
> BIOS Type              Award Modular (09/03/02
> Video Adapter              SiS 650_651_M650_740 (32 MB)
> 3D Accelerator      SiS 315 Integrated
> Audio Adapter              SiS 7012 Audio Device
> IDE Controller      SiS 5513 Dual PCI IDE Controller
> Optical Drive              ASUS DRW-1814BL
>
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