Google Earth

lightismagic · #1 23rd February 2007, 06:14 PM

I'm trying to get Google Earth running. System is a AMD64 with an ATI FireGL X2. I'm running Fedora 6 x86_64. I have the ATI drivers from Livna installed, and glxinfo reports that direct rendering is on with ATI as OpenGL vendor. Google Earth installs without any problem but when I try to start the software, it will not pass the opening screen, no error messages, nothing. Also the rest of the sytems keeps responding. Any ideas?

kind regards

Seve · #2 23rd February 2007, 07:33 PM

Hello:
Try starting the application from a terminal and post the output of the error .

Seve

lightismagic · #3 23rd February 2007, 09:46 PM

Like I said, there are no error messages

kind regards

Seve · #4 23rd February 2007, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by lightismagic

Like I said, there are no error messages

kind regards

Hello:
Seems odd ....... ?
Did you open a terminal as user and type
googleearth

Seve

lightismagic · #5 23rd February 2007, 10:16 PM

Exactly, google earth start screen is coming up and that's it... no error messages whatever...
I tried it as user and as root - no difference

kind regards

Waggoneer · #6 10th March 2007, 10:18 PM

Same thing happens to me. The splash screen just comes up and hangs there. ctrl-c ends the splash screen.

partha · #7 11th March 2007, 12:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lightismagic

I'm trying to get Google Earth running. System is a AMD64 with an ATI FireGL X2. I'm running Fedora 6 x86_64. I have the ATI drivers from Livna installed, and glxinfo reports that direct rendering is on with ATI as OpenGL vendor. Google Earth installs without any problem but when I try to start the software, it will not pass the opening screen, no error messages, nothing. Also the rest of the sytems keeps responding. Any ideas?

kind regards

This was a problem with the versions of Google Earth prior to 4.0.2735. Basically it does not like the current version of the libGL.so from the fglrx driver. You will need an older version and substitute it. I have talked about this issue on my website www.partha.com. Look at the post from Dec 17 especially part 2.

The latest version of Google Earth has eliminated this problem.

HTH,

Partha
www.partha.com

Waggoneer · #8 11th March 2007, 03:01 AM

I am running

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Google Earth version 4.0.2735.0

should I try your steps anyways?

partha · #9 11th March 2007, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Waggoneer

....

should I try your steps anyways?

Well,

This issue has been raised in the past and it was fixed for me with the latest version. this may be due to the fact that I already used the solution I posted and therefore I am OK. Why don't you try and let me know and I will put up an appropriate follow up on my website.

Thanks,

Partha
www.partha.com

cheerio158 · #10 11th March 2007, 03:58 PM

Try running googleearth from the terminal as root and see what happens.

When I first installed it, it came up and dreadfully slow and unusable. In my case, as a normal user, there were a lot of error messages about unable to use shared memory (a permission problem). Running as root didn't have this problem. After googling, I fixed a line in my /etc/fstab file to this:
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0

Maybe your problem is a similar permission issue and this will give you a clue to its resolution.

sdowney717 · #11 11th March 2007, 06:29 PM

I was able to get google earth working in ubuntu with my ATI radeon 9600 installed with ATI drivers using envy installer. Runs great and fast.

I never could get my ATI card working with ATI drivers in fedora and if I run google earth using them it runs terribly slow and is unusable. So for me, it is my ATI card is not properly installed, even when I had installed the ATI drivers, it was not installed properly..

I spent days trying to figure it out, reading all the forum posts about how people cant get the ATI drivers working like they should and finally hit the brick wall and gave up. It is partly why I decided to try ubuntu again and once I had proven it could work with my card and the ATI drivers, I realized it could be done, but I will never figure it out unless someone comes up with an installer just like envy used in ubuntu.

Waggoneer · #12 17th March 2007, 05:40 AM

Just as an update, running it from the terminal as root does not alleviate the problem. Identical symptoms, splash screen just hangs there.

partha · #13 17th March 2007, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waggoneer

Just as an update, running it from the terminal as root does not alleviate the problem. Identical symptoms, splash screen just hangs there.

Did you try the steps I outlined on my website?

Just curious.

Partha
www.partha.com

Waggoneer · #14 17th March 2007, 09:50 PM

Yes, sorry. I am using the Livna FGLRX drivers, btw.
Should I try using the official ATI ones? I tried those on an old machine, and had lots of issues, so I went back to Livna.

partha · #15 17th March 2007, 10:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waggoneer

Yes, sorry. I am using the Livna FGLRX drivers, btw.
Should I try using the official ATI ones? I tried those on an old machine, and had lots of issues, so I went back to Livna.

I would try the official ATI drivers. I have never had any luck with the livna drivers.

Also, which version of the driver are you using and which version of libGL.so did you copy to the GoogleEarth directory?

Partha,
www.partha.com