Okay, sorry, but the mysterious application behaviour was due to a broken harddisk.
And since I decided to stop using Google Earth and Second Life we can close the bug report as "resolved". ** Summary changed: - mysterious application behaviour for the intel "sandy bridge" hardware + RESOLVED: mysterious application behaviour for the intel "sandy bridge" hardware -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079801 Title: RESOLVED: mysterious application behaviour for the intel "sandy bridge" hardware To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1079801/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp