On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:55 +0200, Rubin wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm experiencing odd behaviour with various OpenGL apps I'm (trying to) > use. I have an IBM Thinkpad X60s with the Intel GMA chipset, the 945GM > to be precise. I have glxinfo/glxgears working normally, disabled > composite in xorg.conf and everything seems fine. > > However, there are a few applications that I use that show rather > strange behaviour that I think is related to the same underlying (as yet > unidentified) problem. Here is my list: > > * Google Earth 4.3 > Installed in /opt/googleearth. Starts, but with extremely slow > performance. Unusable, Closing the window takes about 10 seconds. > > * OpenOffice 2.4.0 > Installed in /opt/openoffice. Failed to start when using the "intel" or > "i810" Xorg driver. "vesa" driver works fine. Later learned that setting > GTK_MODULES="" works around the problem while using the "intel" or > "i810" drivers and that it might have to do with the gnome integration > stuff in OpenOffice. CentOS 5.2 has Gnome 2.16.0 from 2/18/2007. In recent conversations with a tech for an application I use, I believe 2.18 is the current RH version. Maybe when this makes it to CentOS (if I'm correct and it will be an update soon), maybe this will fix your issue. > <snip> > Rurib. > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill