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JimHinthorne

GoogleEarth start problem

Post by JimHinthorne »

Linux Mint 6. When GoogleEarth starts it seems to grab only about 2/3 the width of the map window and the right side of the globe is cut off. Then the whole system slows down over about 10 seconds to where computer is nearly unresponsive (mouse, keyboard, window buttons, everything. Another 10 seconds and system seems totally dead. Have to manually reset computer and reboot uncleanly. Then all is normal. No other application has any failure at all incl. Open Office, picture editing, Mozilla, Thunderbird, etc.
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lagagnon

Re: GoogleEarth start problem

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You probably do not have the correct video driver loaded for your video card. Did you go to Control Center, Hardware, Hardware Drivers and install the recommended driver? If not, do so now. If there is no recommended driver there open a terminal, type the following command and post the results of that command to this thread:

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inxi -G
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Re: GoogleEarth start problem

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"No proprietary drivers are in use on this system."
# inxi -G
Graphics: Card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter tty resolution ( 80x24 )
DrHu

Re: GoogleEarth start problem

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Graphics: Card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter tty resolution ( 80x24 )
That's the resolution of the display ? ( 80x24 )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_display_standard

Here's mine, where I see the xorg settings..
  • inxi -G
    Graphics: Card nVidia NV36.2 [GeForce FX 5700] X.Org 1.6.0 Res 1600x1200@50.0hz
    GLX Renderer GeForce FX 5700/AGP/SSE/3DNOW! GLX Version 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.16
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Re: GoogleEarth start problem

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@ DrHu - trying again I get
Graphics: Card Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter X.Org 1.6.0 Res 1152x864@75.0hz
DrHu

Re: GoogleEarth start problem

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OK, but does it handle 3D graphics..
http://earth.google.com/support/bin/ans ... swer=20701
  • Graphics Card: 3D-capable with 16MB of VRAM - Screen: 1024x768, "16-bit High Color" screen
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=262331
http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsisusbvga.shtml
--I would also think it might be the widescreen display mode that your are using, which is fine for the desktop and other applications, but maybe not for GoogleEarth..
--and that the missing part of the display might be the resolution that GoogleEarth is looking for, part of its own application setup: perhaps..
  • I do see that your card type, can do accelerated graphics (3D or dri in Linux..)
In terminal, check
Glxinfo

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glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4 
DRI enabled ? ; for your SIS card

Or if you want to mess around with /etc/X11/xorg.conf file just for google earth, settings are ? will be what ?
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.p ... ber=489709
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Re: GoogleEarth start problem

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@ DrHu ok - i remember now
I beat this to death with Fedora 5 a few years ago.
I am hosed in terms of 3d graphics with this desktop. thanks
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