[CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

On Friday, October 19, 2012 05:44:14 AM Ned Slider wrote:
> On 19/10/12 02:36, fred smith wrote:
> > that all makes perfect sense, except,... why did everything ELSE
> > still work? (I admit to not having tried any of the GL screensaver
> > demos, or any high-end GL games...)
 
> Only applications using OpenGL would be affected.

> If you want to test for yourself, try running 'glxgears'.

GoogleEarth is another good test case, as it stresses the driver pretty hard.