GoogleEarth doesn't work on my FC10 laptop --- fixed!

[Wendell Nichols]

Wendell Nichols wrote:
> 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
>
I noticed that there was an update for the nvidia driver, so I applied 
it.  A kernel update from fedora went on as well because I did an 
update, but I think the nvidia driver was what fixed it.   Its working 
now...
wcn