Google Earth on linux?

electrofreak · l33t Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 713 Location: Ohio, USA

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.
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dalek · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:05 am Post subject:

Is it just me or does anyone else get this:

psutokth · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:06 am Post subject:

Fukai · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject:

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:

Fukai · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject:

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.

hiroki · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject: terribly slow...

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:

Fukai · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: Re: terribly slow...

hiroki · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:22 am Post subject: Re: terribly slow...

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psutokth · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the heads up about the bug and avoiding and overlay, and even better the bug is resolved, worked for me just now.

SteveBallmersChair · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:30 am Post subject:

SteveBallmersChair · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:46 am Post subject:

electrofreak · l33t Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 713 Location: Ohio, USA

TheCoop · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject:

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?
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SteveBallmersChair · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject:

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.
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fuzzythebear · Guru Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 317

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 ?
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MaDxRaY · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:08 am Post subject: Re: new thread ?

Scytale · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:09 am Post subject:

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:

gerryAU · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:34 am Post subject:

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
#####

Thank you.
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MaDxRaY · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:02 am Post subject:

vote for new thread:
google earth problems on amd64.
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reynolds531 · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:39 am Post subject: nvidia-drivers-1.0.9625 beta

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.

b0fh · Guru Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 426

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?

LAj · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject:

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!
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SteveBallmersChair · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

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.)
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