Google Earth

[Karl Larsen]

Paul Lemmons wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Google Earth
> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: 01/10/2008 11:47 AM
>
>> Antonio M wrote:
>>> 2008/1/10, Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com>:
>>>  
>>>> -------- Original Message  --------
>>>> Subject: Google Earth
>>>> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
>>>> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>>> Date: 01/10/2008 09:16 AM
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>>>     
>>>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>    It sounds to me since it does the same thing on F7 and F8 that
>>>>>>> there might be a problem with google-earth. It might be that it is
>>>>>>> designed to work in the ubuntu operating system.
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>> You need to put :-) at the end of your sentences when you are 
>>>>>> making a
>>>>>> joke.  Otherwise some people may actually take you seriously.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Google Earth is working just fine for me under RHELv4, RHELv5, 
>>>>>> and F8.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         
>>>>>    No Joke. This software will not run on MY F8. I wonder what you 
>>>>> did
>>>>> to your F8 to make it work?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>> Does
>>>>
>>>> $ glxinfo | grep direct
>>>> direct rendering: Yes
>>>>
>>>> Say "Yes" for you?
>>>>
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>>>>     
>>>
>>> $ glxinfo | grep direct
>>> direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting
>>> LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
>>> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
>>>
>>> and it is working with nv driver in FC9 rawhide :-)
>>>
>>>   
>>    This is hard to explain, but in a non-root terminal I put glxinfo 
>> | grep direct and my screen went blank, much like it does with google 
>> earth, and after a few seconds I had to reboot from init level 3!
>>
>>    It appears glxinfo is not working right on my F8.
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>
> It is my understanding that Google Earth wants to use the 3D 
> acceleration offered by your graphics card. I only say this because it 
> simply would not work for me until I got that working first. My 
> experience is that Google Earth is fine, your graphics card is 
> probably not setup right. This hunch is supported by the fact that 
> glxinfo produces the same results as Google Earth for you.
>
> What type of graphics card do you have? (/sbin/lspci)
    I looked and gtk has been removed from my F8 perhaps when removing 
pulseaudio. I put yum install gtk* and I am getting 66 rpm packages. 
Perhaps then I can try google earth again.  


Karl


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