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Post subject: googleearth question
 Posted: Sep 02, 2006 - 09:24 PM
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Location: Port Angeles, Wa. USA
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I downloaded & installed googleearth but when I start it, I get no earth map in the display pane, just a band of colors. My system info is:
computer A7V400-MX running Easter-RC-4
cpu AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
memory 512MB
VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
display VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video w/64MB
I used googleearth before with 2005-04 RC-24 & it worked ok. KinfoCenter says I have OpenGL 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.2) & client GLX ver 1.4.
I wonder if I got errors in the d/l or I need to reconfigure it or what? |
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Post subject: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 06:53 AM
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| As far as I'm concerned, googleearth for linux is trash. The site didn't even have a proper procedure to get rid of it, so I just put the folders in the trash & emptied the trash bin. I don't know if remnants or dependencies are left behind, but it didn't try to restart when I typed it in Konsole, so I'm assuming it's gone. Too bad. I would've liked to use it. |
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Post subject: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 07:28 AM
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Well its a little a late but debian has a package which will create a deb for you of that program (It's named googleearth as well in the repos.)
I would have tried running it from the console. You may just be missing a depencies. |
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Post subject: Re: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 03:26 PM
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2radical wrote:
I downloaded & installed googleearth but when I start it, I get no earth map in the display pane, just a band of colors. /snip/
I wonder if I got errors in the d/l or I need to reconfigure it or what?
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apt-get install googleearth-package
Then simply launch it from a shell.
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googleearth
It works fabulously here. |
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Post subject: Re: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 04:02 PM
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Glad it works for some of us, but unfortunately not for me.
The application starts allright, but there is a terrible mess of maps in different size splattered all over the place - see the image. |
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Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 04:47 PM
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I would have tried running it from the console. You may just be missing a depencies.
That's what I did do. There was an entry in Kmenu under internet as well. I didn't know that it was avaliable via apt-get so I will try that & see if it works any better. Thanks
kurt |
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Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 05:23 PM
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Post subject: Re: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 05:58 PM
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2radical wrote:
The site didn't even have a proper procedure to get rid of it.
Inside the google folder, there is a little file called uninstall
Just click, gone  |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 07:08 PM
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The googleearth-package I downloaded from debian is just the changelog.gz & the copyright located in usr/share/doc, not the application itself. Note the size:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
googleearth-package
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 491 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4932B of archives.
After unpacking 25.6kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package googleearth-package.
(Reading database ... 133359 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking googleearth-package (from .../googleearth-package_0.0.1_all.deb) ...
Setting up googleearth-package (0.0.1) ...
Looks like I'll have to give up on it aas well until it's a stable version. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 07:21 PM
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| run "make-googleearth-package" |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 07:44 PM
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I did that & typing googleearth doesn't start the application. I have 2 files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17033653 Aug 17 11:43 GoogleEarthLinux.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16776246 Sep 4 11:25 googleearth_4.0.1693-1_i386.deb
It looks like I need to run chmod 775 on one of them as root, but am unsure to be honest. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 08:43 PM
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| dpkg -i googleearth_4.0.1693-1_i386.deb |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 09:09 PM
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makke: I think I need to wget a key because what I get is:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 09:24 PM
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Just to confirm makke instructions work fine and Google earth is quite impressive.
apt-get install googleearth-package
make googleearth-package
dpkg -i googleearth_4.0.1693-1_i386.deb
then run it as user in a console ( or alt+F2 ) with "googleearth" |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 09:25 PM
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 04, 2006 - 09:44 PM
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OK I got it to work now only the image pane is half-blacked out. I'll have to play around with a bit to see if I can get it to display full. It's rather unstable right now as when I minimize or maximise it's different each time. Thank you for your help. I would like to get it running reliably, or at least full pane. Thanks
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Posted: Sep 05, 2006 - 07:25 AM
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Hey ya know what? I really appreciate everyone's help, but like a lot of other people, I don't think that googleearth is quite ready for Linux. Half a window pane? Total lockup whereby I have to reset? My hardware has handled everything that's come it's way so far. I'm happy for those who have this app working, really, but this ain't windows, last time I looked...I'll wait for stable, or whatever. More effort than it's worth, AFAIS JUST LOOK AT THIS REALTIME OUTPUT:
root@WorldsEnd:/home/joyboy# apt-get remove --purge googleearth
root@WorldsEnd:/home/joyboy# apt-get remove --purge googleearth-package
root@WorldsEnd:/home/joyboy# apt-get remove screw you rotten bastards
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ROTTEN BASTARDS
After unpacking 25.6MB disk space will be freed, & rotten bastards will be screwed, freeing up a lot of anguished head space.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ROTTEN BASTARDS & anything else that annoys you
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
bash: That was good for me, was it good for you [Y/n]? y
root@WorldsEnd:/home/joyboy# Oh yeah, baby
bash: oh yeah, baby: command not found
root@WorldsEnd:/home/joyboy# all right just forget about it then |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question
Posted: Sep 05, 2006 - 02:12 PM
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why as root?
run googleearth as user! |
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Posted: Sep 06, 2006 - 04:57 AM
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2radical, lol.
Google Earth's incompatible with your graphics card. Quote: "Known issues with S3 graphics cards -- Via S3 Unichrome renders incorrectly when used with OpenGL, please use DirectX only." Which is kind of hard to do until Microsoft releases a Linux version of DirectX. |
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Posted: Sep 06, 2006 - 06:06 AM
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| eco2geek: Thanks for that information. I wonder why I had googleearth working when I used 2005-04? I have the same hardware. Oh well thanks for trying to help everyone. I guess I'll do without. |
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Posted: Sep 06, 2006 - 02:47 PM
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Posted: Sep 07, 2006 - 02:43 AM
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moltas: Are you sure that link is for 64bit systems only? I didn't see any indication of such a prerequisite. I have the required files installed with my 32bit system, with the exception of * libgl1-mesa-dri_6.5.0.cvs * libglu1-mesa_6.5.0.cvs * libgl1-mesa-glx_6.5.0.cvs
which apt couldn't find even though I have the debian multimedia repository in my sources.list OOPS I just noted that they are in experimental which I don't want to do anyhow so as not to compromise stability. Anyway, I'm using 2.6.17.7-slh-up-1 #1 PREEMPT kernel, & I don't know if AGP (Device drivers->Character device) and DRM (Device drivers ->Graphic drivers) is enabled. Apparently it's required....KinfoCenter wasn't very descriptive in that regard. Dmesg had agpgart: Detected VIA KM400/KM400A chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000. But I don't know if that means it's enabled or not.
Googleearth isn't mission critical for me--I just wanted to look at my area in Belize. |
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Posted: Sep 07, 2006 - 04:01 AM
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How I fixed all my lockups with google-earth and 3d games
add
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Option "AGPv3Mask" "0x00000002"
to the "device" section in xorg.conf and reboot, nothing locks up on me anymore |
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Posted: Sep 07, 2006 - 05:12 AM
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piper: I tried your suggestion & googleearth immediately locked up on me so I had to reset my computer. No keyboard response.
Oh well I guess this version of it doesn't like my hardware. |
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Posted: Sep 07, 2006 - 07:26 AM
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Hello
apt-get googleearth is only for 32 bit.
The linux.bin file works on 32bit and 64 bit |
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