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electrofreak l33t
Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 713 Location: Ohio, USA
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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willistg wrote: | I found this while searching for where to report bugs for googleearth.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/471862/an/0/page/0#471862
Quote: | - Linux users may see imagery corruption where an 'image tile' from one location appears in another. This predominantly occurs on video cards with low or shared VRAM and with particularly sets of drivers. For many users, this has been fixed by using the menu Tools->Options... and setting the "Detail Area" to 256. A fix for some graphics card will be available soon. We are working with the graphics card manufacturers to address any driver issues. |
The gentoo bug I filed got updated to "CantFix" since it's a binary.
I'm gonna try setting the detail area when I get home. |
Ah... well, I have shared ram... I have 128MB built in and 128MB shared with the system, making a total 256MB of video RAM. I tried changing the detail down to 256, and it did something, but didn't improve things. Then, I changed it to 512, and it made it better, but still not right.
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electrofreak l33t
Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 713 Location: Ohio, USA
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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Unbelievably... XGL seems to have fixed google earth. Yep... I recently got XGL all setup and now Google earth works fine... a little bit slow when traveling to places, but once it is there and things are loaded up, it's just fine. _________________ Desktop: ABit AN8, Athlon64 X2 4400+ 939 2.75GHz, 2x1GB Corsair XMS DDR400, 2x160GB SATA RAID-0, 2x20"W, Vista Ultimate x64
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dalek Veteran
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 1353 Location: Mississippi USA
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: |
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Is it just me or does anyone else get this:
Code: | root@smoker / # emerge googleearth -f
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-misc/googleearth-4_beta to /
>>> Downloading http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
--01:00:27-- http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/GoogleEarthLinux.bin'
Resolving dl.google.com... 64.233.179.91, 64.233.179.93
Connecting to dl.google.com|64.233.179.91|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 17,033,653 (16M) [application/octet-stream]
100%[============================================>] 17,033,653 374.07K/s ETA 00:00
01:01:12 (369.64 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/GoogleEarthLinux.bin' saved [17033653/17033653]
('Filesize does not match recorded size', 17033653L, 17027325)
!!! Fetched file: GoogleEarthLinux.bin VERIFY FAILED!
!!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
!!! Got: 17033653
!!! Expected: 17027325
Removing corrupt distfile...
!!! Couldn't download GoogleEarthLinux.bin. Aborting.
!!! Fetch for /usr/portage/x11-misc/googleearth/googleearth-4_beta.ebuild failed, continuing...
!!! Some fetch errors were encountered. Please see above for details.
root@smoker / # |
I dunno what happened.
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psutokth Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 121 Location: Lake Champlain
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:06 am Post subject: |
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Code: | >>> checking GoogleEarthLinux.bin
!!! Digest verification failed:
!!! /usr/portage/distfiles/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
!!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
!!! Got: 17033653
!!! Expected: 17027325 |
Me too. This is strange because AFAIK Google didn't mention updating the file, and neither has portage, but clearly it was working before. |
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Fukai Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 149 Location: São Paulo, Brazil
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Ouch! Yes, Google update the client (from 4.0.1660 (the version in portage) to 4.0.1693).
To solve you need to make an overlay with google earth ebuild (take a look at gentoo-wiki) and redo
the digests.
The version of client is in the head of client file:
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#!/bin/sh
# This script was generated using Makeself 2.1.5
CRCsum="3988581929"
MD5="dea81c5bb266fcfd920208ab0d8b727e"
TMPROOT=${TMPDIR:=/tmp}
label="Google Earth for GNU/Linux 4.0.1693"
script="./setup.sh"
scriptargs=""
targetdir="GoogleEarthLinuxPlus-4.0.1693-installer"
filesizes="17024769"
keep=n
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Fukai Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 149 Location: São Paulo, Brazil
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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I think is better if the googleearth installer file is put in some gentoo dev website or in any other place and dont download from google. |
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hiroki Guru
Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 327 Location: @home in germany
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject: terribly slow... |
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Hi,
I am using Google Earth for Linux (before I was using Google Earth with wine).
My problem is that Google Earth (for Linux) is soooooooooo slow, terribly slow. Something like 0.5fps.
I cannot use fglrx as I am using Xorg 7.1, but I am using the r300 driver, so I do have acceleration enabled:
Code: | io ~ $ glxinfo | grep render
Mesa: CPU vendor: GenuineIntel
Mesa: CPU name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz
Mesa: MMX cpu detected.
Mesa: SSE cpu detected.
Mesa: Not testing OS support for SSE, leaving enabled.
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20040924 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL |
glxgears gives me about 1500fps. So it seems to be working. Yet, Google Earth gives me about 0.5 ~ 0.25fps.
Any help ?
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Fukai Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 149 Location: São Paulo, Brazil
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: Re: terribly slow... |
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hiroki wrote: |
My problem is that Google Earth (for Linux) is soooooooooo slow, terribly slow. Something like 0.5fps.
I cannot use fglrx as I am using Xorg 7.1, but I am using the r300 driver, so I do have acceleration enabled:
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Uhh... inside google earth what say in Help->About Google Earth abou Renderer? |
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hiroki Guru
Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 327 Location: @home in germany
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:22 am Post subject: Re: terribly slow... |
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Fukai wrote: | hiroki wrote: |
My problem is that Google Earth (for Linux) is soooooooooo slow, terribly slow. Something like 0.5fps.
I cannot use fglrx as I am using Xorg 7.1, but I am using the r300 driver, so I do have acceleration enabled:
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Uhh... inside google earth what say in Help->About Google Earth abou Renderer? |
It says "Renderer: OpenGL". |
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wskellenger n00b
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 52
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject: Google Earth issues |
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Fukai wrote: | Ouch! Yes, Google update the client (from 4.0.1660 (the version in portage) to 4.0.1693).
To solve you need to make an overlay with google earth ebuild (take a look at gentoo-wiki) and redo
the digests.
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Hi guys -- this is a known issue:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139544
In the meantime, you shouldn't have to create an overlay -- just create a new digest:
ebuild /usr/portage/x11-misc/googleearth-4_beta.ebuild digest |
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psutokth Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 121 Location: Lake Champlain
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the heads up about the bug and avoiding and overlay, and even better the bug is resolved, worked for me just now. |
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SteveBallmersChair Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 84 Location: Being thrown around in Redmond
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:30 am Post subject: |
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badchien wrote: | I am also trying to run it on an x86_64 system. I have the small, difficult to read font issue mentioned above, but more importantly when I start googlearth it tells me that it cannot identify my graphics card, so I get no "render" display at all; just a black box.
Anyone have this working to any degree with nvidia drivers on amd64?
I have:
media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756
media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 |
It starts fine and the fonts are really small. I get some sort of weird corruption in the images though- almost like the map images are tiles and the tiles are all out of order. The Aleutian Islands are not located in central Missouri... _________________ Unix is user friendly- it is just picky who its friends are. |
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SteveBallmersChair Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 84 Location: Being thrown around in Redmond
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:46 am Post subject: |
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electrofreak wrote: | Mr. Tiddles wrote: | I've tried with both the ebuild and the .bin file, it starts fine, and connects fine. But as soon as it starts zooming in towards the surface of the earth then all the imagery in the middle of the screen just disappears. Around the edges then there's still images, but they're completely screwed up relative to the country borders overlaid on the globe. I have most of west mexco in the middle of the pacific...
Also, the text across the bottom of the viewport is messed up, some letters display and others don't.
System is amd64, mostly from the stable tree. Running X.org 7.0 with nVidia's drivers on a 256mb GeForce 6500
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I'm also getting the same kind of shitty display. I have an nvidia 6200LE 256MB (with TC) graphics card with the nvidia latest drivers on ~amd64 (8762). Tho, unlike you, I am running xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7.
Any ideas??? |
Athlon X2 on 2006.0 AMD64, 64MB/256MB GeForce 6200TC, Xorg 7.0.0, NVIDIA stable drivers (8756, IIRC.) Same deal. I really don't want to have to get a better GPU as this little guy was not only inexpensive, it more than does the job for everything else I do- which is just to keep two monitors lit. _________________ Unix is user friendly- it is just picky who its friends are. |
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electrofreak l33t
Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 713 Location: Ohio, USA
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:38 am Post subject: |
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SteveBallmersChair wrote: | electrofreak wrote: | Mr. Tiddles wrote: | I've tried with both the ebuild and the .bin file, it starts fine, and connects fine. But as soon as it starts zooming in towards the surface of the earth then all the imagery in the middle of the screen just disappears. Around the edges then there's still images, but they're completely screwed up relative to the country borders overlaid on the globe. I have most of west mexco in the middle of the pacific...
Also, the text across the bottom of the viewport is messed up, some letters display and others don't.
System is amd64, mostly from the stable tree. Running X.org 7.0 with nVidia's drivers on a 256mb GeForce 6500
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I'm also getting the same kind of shitty display. I have an nvidia 6200LE 256MB (with TC) graphics card with the nvidia latest drivers on ~amd64 (8762). Tho, unlike you, I am running xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7.
Any ideas??? |
Athlon X2 on 2006.0 AMD64, 64MB/256MB GeForce 6200TC, Xorg 7.0.0, NVIDIA stable drivers (8756, IIRC.) Same deal. I really don't want to have to get a better GPU as this little guy was not only inexpensive, it more than does the job for everything else I do- which is just to keep two monitors lit. |
I stated in a recent post (I think, or at least I meant to, heh) that for me getting XGL setup actually solved all my problems. Obviously, this is no real solution. I hear that google actually knows about the problem, though and they are working on fixing it. It seems to be a problem with the shared video ram stuff that we all have. _________________ Desktop: ABit AN8, Athlon64 X2 4400+ 939 2.75GHz, 2x1GB Corsair XMS DDR400, 2x160GB SATA RAID-0, 2x20"W, Vista Ultimate x64
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TheCoop Veteran
Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 1814 Location: Where you least expect it
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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I havent got QT installed, and all the text is nigh-on unreadably small. Is there any way of increasing the text size without installing QT? _________________ 95% of all computer errors occur between chair and keyboard (TM)
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SteveBallmersChair Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 84 Location: Being thrown around in Redmond
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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There are config files in $HOME/.googleearth/Registry/google/googleearthplus/User/render that do the job. You can echo a size as a number to the file "guifontsize" and that will change the font size. You can change other font-related things like the font used (guifontfamily) style (guifontstyle) and so on. _________________ Unix is user friendly- it is just picky who its friends are. |
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fuzzythebear Guru
Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 317
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:57 am Post subject: new thread ? |
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note : nm .. seems it's a driver related bug ,for some
downgrading the drivers worked.
Just installed the googleearth ebuild
Got trouble with a 99 ^ cpu and google earth never
really starting.All i get i sthe splash ..
Same for the older version i have which was from
google direct .. used to work like a champ.
in between what happened?
GCC 4.1.1 and a complete rebuild
Dont know if it's related or how to hunt the bug ..
Ideas ? _________________ There's this once i thought i had made a mistake .. but i was wrong |
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MaDxRaY Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 106 Location: central europe
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:08 am Post subject: Re: new thread ? |
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fuzzythebear wrote: | note : nm .. seems it's a driver related bug ,for some
downgrading the drivers worked.
Just installed the googleearth ebuild
Got trouble with a 99 ^ cpu and google earth never
really starting.All i get i sthe splash ..
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Same here, I had no problems on my x86 machine but didn't know which verison was installed (3 weeks ago).
Does any body has a solution? _________________ greetz
Ray |
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Scytale n00b
Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 70 Location: Mannheim, BW, Germany
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:09 am Post subject: |
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Hey... I'm trying to run Google Earth as a different user, since I don't trust it enough to let it access my home directory. I ran into some problems:
1. It seems that if you create more than one X11 session, only the first has full GLX and DRI support. That means I cannot use KDE's cool "log in as different user" feature, instead I have to log out and log in with my Google Earth user. Since I would very much prefer running it under the same session anyway, I tried using sudo for this.
2. Something like sudo -H -u earth /usr/bin/googleearth won't work, since it doesn't set the DISPLAY variable needed to tell GE which X11 display to use. Using sudo -H -u earth /bin/bash -c 'DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/googleearth' won't work either, since the GE user is denied access to my display.
3. I tried setting up an ssh server on the localhost (by setting ListenAddress 127.0.0.1 and X11Forwarding yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config) and tried ssh -X earth@localhost /usr/bin/googleearth. GE crashes because GLX isn't forwarded.
Finally I got sick of it and used the following configuration. This is not 100% secure, as GE has access to my display and could do things like keylogging etc., but I rather doubt Google would include such stuff. If anybody has a more secure solution, please let me know!
1. Create /usr/local/bin/ge, owned by root:root and chmod 0755:
Code: | #!/bin/sh
cp ~scy/.Xauthority ~earth
chown earth:users ~earth/.Xauthority
exec sudo -H -u earth /bin/bash -c 'DISPLAY=:0 LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=true /usr/bin/googleearth' |
(Replace "scy" with your user and "earth" with the GE user, of course. Also, you might not need LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT, I do.)
2. Add the following line to the sudoers file with visudo (replacing "scy" again):
Code: | scy ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/ge |
3. You can now launch Google Earth from your local user with sudo /usr/local/bin/ge. I created an alias for it in my .bashrc. _________________ Never stop using your brain. |
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gerryAU n00b
Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 27 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:34 am Post subject: |
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G`Day runs great on my box except the mouse cursor flashes & goes invisible while using the pan/zoom/joystick fuction. Any body else having this trouble? Have tried both the e-build & .bin with both the same problem.
I have evdev as my mouse driver & Option "HWCursor" "false" in my device section of xorg.conf (7.0r-1)
No other app I use has mouse flicker or mouse annoyances except GE
could it be the evdev driver ?
my org.conf for reference:
# XFree86 4 configuration
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
# Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
Option "Buttons" "10"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "9 10"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "BenQ FP231W (Analog)"
HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation Unknown device 00f5"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "HWCursor" "false"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
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MaDxRaY Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 106 Location: central europe
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:02 am Post subject: |
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vote for new thread:
google earth problems on amd64. _________________ greetz
Ray |
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reynolds531 Apprentice
Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 260 Location: Rochester, NY
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:39 am Post subject: nvidia-drivers-1.0.9625 beta |
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If you have the crazy-quilt problem on amd64, try the new nvidia-drivers-1.0.9625 beta. It worked for me.
There's a thread on it and an ebuild in bugzilla. |
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b0fh Guru
Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 426
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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Google earth is running more or less fine on my notebook now, but I have a strange problem:
The status bar (bottom of the image, where altitude and position should be shown) is empty. I have that grey, long box, but no values in it. Anyone with that problem (and a solution), too? |
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LAj Apprentice
Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 294 Location: Avellino[Italy]
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hi guy
I've this strange problem with googleearth:
I can run it only with
#eselect opengl set xorg-x11
#googleearth
with ati opengl
it stuck on the title window with google earth logo and don't load the main window!
System is running a fglrx video device module!
As is it's really slow! _________________ They produce notes of any size as their own properties askng interests also.This is seignorage and goes to privates banks(FED, BCE).You don't have to pay to use $$,you can simply use your notes recovering monetary sovereignty.Public debt is not right! |
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SteveBallmersChair Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 84 Location: Being thrown around in Redmond
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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When I get my x1900 in a couple of days, I'll fire it up to see if I get the same result you do. My current 6200TC with its shared memory has that known bug with blocks of textures missing (mentioned above.) _________________ Unix is user friendly- it is just picky who its friends are. |
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