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2radical - 02.09.2006, 21:24 Uhr
Titel: googleearth question

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?

2radical - 04.09.2006, 06:53 Uhr
Titel: RE: googleearth question

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.

jackiebrown - 04.09.2006, 07:28 Uhr
Titel: RE: googleearth question

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.

mzilikazi - 04.09.2006, 15:26 Uhr
Titel: Re: googleearth question

2radical hat folgendes geschrieben::

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?

Code:

apt-get install googleearth-package

Then simply launch it from a shell.

Code:

googleearth

It works fabulously here.

cs - 04.09.2006, 16:02 Uhr
Titel: Re: googleearth question

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.

2radical - 04.09.2006, 16:47 Uhr
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Zitat:

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

h2 - 04.09.2006, 17:23 Uhr
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cs, that's what I saw too before I gave up on it.

piper - 04.09.2006, 17:58 Uhr
Titel: Re: RE: googleearth question

2radical hat folgendes geschrieben::

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 Winken

2radical - 04.09.2006, 19:08 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question

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.

makke - 04.09.2006, 19:21 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question

run "make-googleearth-package"

2radical - 04.09.2006, 19:44 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question

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.

makke - 04.09.2006, 20:43 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question

dpkg -i googleearth_4.0.1693-1_i386.deb

2radical - 04.09.2006, 21:09 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question

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

titan - 04.09.2006, 21:24 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question

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"

DeepDayze - 04.09.2006, 21:25 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question

try using:

sux

2radical - 04.09.2006, 21:44 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question

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
kurt

2radical - 05.09.2006, 07:25 Uhr
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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

makke - 05.09.2006, 14:12 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: RE: googleearth question

why as root?
run googleearth as user!

eco2geek - 06.09.2006, 04:57 Uhr
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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.

2radical - 06.09.2006, 06:06 Uhr
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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.

moltas - 06.09.2006, 14:47 Uhr
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I found this howto
http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/231.html
If you hav a 64 bit sys. go to google earth and download the linux.bin
then right klick on it and get the prop. to run it
work perfect.

2radical - 07.09.2006, 02:43 Uhr
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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.

piper - 07.09.2006, 04:01 Uhr
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How I fixed all my lockups with google-earth and 3d games

add

Code:

Option "AGPv3Mask" "0x00000002"

to the "device" section in xorg.conf and reboot, nothing locks up on me anymore

2radical - 07.09.2006, 05:12 Uhr
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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.

moltas - 07.09.2006, 07:26 Uhr
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Hello
apt-get googleearth is only for 32 bit.
The linux.bin file works on 32bit and 64 bit

piper - 07.09.2006, 15:27 Uhr
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2radical hat folgendes geschrieben::

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.

Sorry 2radical, my fault also, I believe it (fix) won't work with Mesa Verlegen

jbs1136 - 08.09.2006, 08:55 Uhr
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Moltas, I started reading this thread today and after completing it I checked the link you posted. Thank you. I now have the new beta version of GoogleEarth installed and running. My only problem was when I downloaded it, I downloaded it to my download folder which is on my sata drive separate from my os. After realizing what I was doing I moved it to /home/bin and everything worked well. The only part I skipped was the rebuild of the kernal. Didn't think it would be necessary and honestly, I don't know how and it scares the hell out of me to think about doing it. Anyway, it all works and just wanted to say thanks.

John