GoogleEarth doesn't work on my FC10 laptop

[Wendell Nichols]

When I try to start googleearth I get a popup that says:
Google Earth: Unknown Graphics Card
Google Earth is unable to identify your graphics card.  this is most 
likely because the driver for your graphics card has not been 
installed......

It points me to a help site, where the answer is completely unsatisfactory.
My graphics card is an Nvidia Quadro FX 570M using nvidia's proprietary 
driver: 173:14:18 from their downloaded file:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.18-pkg2.run

Anyone else got this?
wcn