11.2 64bit Nvidia Googleearth

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#1

Hello

A bit of a problem here and T.B.H i get tired of it. >:(
I have a new installation of Opensuse 11.2 64bit.
Nvidia graphic card: GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Kernel: 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop

Everythings works except for googleearth. It seems to start and running without crashing but i don`t see the planet just a black screen.

I tried everything and installed a lot of nvidia drivers, one click install and the hard way. But it always results in xserver not starting.
The driver i`m using right now is NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53.

I tried to install the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.25-pkg2.run
But when it started X it gave a error:
the kernelmodule is not matching the driver.
Kernel module NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.18
while driver is NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.25

Thanks

#2

Tux-2010 wrote:
> Everythings works except for googleearth. It seems to start and running
> without crashing but i don`t see the planet just a black screen.

how did you determine that the “no planet” in Googleearth problem was
a nvidia driver problem?

did you get an error message, or what?

I tried everything and installed a lot of nvidia drivers, one click
install and the hard way. But it always results in xserver not
starting.

did you find some other user’s posting of “no planet” that was solved
fixed by changing nvidia drivers?

The driver i`m using right now is NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53.

ok, have you turned on 3D support in YaST > Hardware > Graphics Card &
Monitor ??

> I tried to install the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.25-pkg2.run
> But when it started X it gave a error:
> the kernelmodule is not matching the driver.
> Kernel module NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.18
> while driver is NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.25

right, the nvidia driver must match the kernel module, or it won’t work…

see if you have 3D enabled…if you do, and you don’t see a beautiful
Earth you are probably gonna need to do a lot of reading trying to
find a problem similar to yours which has been solved…

HA!

i looked at the first hit from:
http://www.google.com/search?q=“google+earth”+“no+planet”+solved

and guess yours is a permissions problem…

i guess you installed Google Earth as root…am i right?

i hope you don’t normally run KDE logged into root, do you?
in fact, i hope you ‘never’ log into KDE (or Gnome, XFCE, etc) as
root, because it is never required to do so…

logged in as a regular user, see if you can run it from a terminal
this way

sudo googleearth

and, give the root password when prompted (you will not see what you type)

then come back with the results of this experiment and i’ll fill you
in on why not to log into KDE as root, and how to do ‘admin’ stuff
without…

–
palladium

#3

No, i did not get a error message but when googling the problem.
But a lot of times it was mentioned it might be a nvidia driver problem.

No, only answers as it might be a nvidia

Yes it`s turned on.

The problem is when i installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.25 it did not install thekernel module NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.25

No you`re not right i installed it in user mode

Of course not.

Googleearth was never installed as root however when i run it as root or as user i get the same problem.
I starts but i don`t see a Planet

#4

since 3D is enabled, and it is not a permissions problem i am out of
ideas and help…suggest you continue with google searches until
someone smarter than me comes with the answer…

while i highly doubt that changing the nvidia driver will help (since
you have 3D successfully enabled), but it may…the thing you MUST do
when changing nvidia drivers is to compile the driver using the
headers of the kernel in use or it will never work…

have you searched to learn the one best nvidia driver for that board
and your kernel…it isn’t something to guess about…sorry, i can’t
tell you exactly how to determine the driver to use…but, if i were
doing it for myself i would begin here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=“GeForce+6150SE+nForce+430”+“which+driver”+linux

–
palladium

#5

I removed googleearth including .googleearth and .config/Google and installed it again.
Now i get a planet but it crashes after 3 seconds

#6

I am not sure if this solves your problem, but I saw something similar on a machine with an older nvidia card.

I solved it by changing a setting in google earth.
Open the tools menu and goto options
in the dialog at the right there is a possibility (checkbox) to switch to “Abgesicherter Grafikmodus” (in the german dialog) which I guess is in the english version something like “Save mode” or “Compatibility mode” or similar
and then restart google earth.

Of course whenever one switches to something called save or compatibility there is a loss in performance, but google earth runs fluently with it even on this older machine.

#7

Tux-2010 wrote:
> I removed googleearth including .googleearth and .config/Google

i can’t readily find the instructions on how to uninstall Google
Earth, how did you do it?

are you sure you installed all of it?

i ask because i know it installs a custom built version of WINE, but,
i don’t know where it puts that, or what happens if you leave bits of
the bogus “registry” around for a subsequent install attempt…

> and installed it again.
> Now i get a planet but it crashes after 3 seconds

what crashes? (Google Earth, the WINE it runs in, or KDE or openSUSE
or . . .)

What exactly are you seeing? is Google Earth disappearing from your
screen? or is your whole screen going black? or maybe the screen is
freezing and the mouse won’t move? or, exactly what is happening…

have you looked in earlier posts here to see if crashing after a few
seconds has been encountered by others, and solved? there is a link on
this page where can go to an advanced search page and drill down to
pay dirt, maybe…

(what i’m saying is: i’ve not experienced these particular problems
with Google Earth and so i don’t know exactly how to fix it…maybe
someone else will happen by, see your post and give you the
answer…but, that might not happen until next week…or never…the
choice is your to wait and see, or try to move on though another
million other posts…)

i think i’d first make sure i had uninstalled completely and
correctly, and then i’d do an install according to the
documentation…and then go from there…but, it may be easier to see
if someone else has solved what you see now…

–
palladium

#8

I did not uninstall it i just removed the directories

Well that i do not know like i said i just removed the directories

Right now i see Googleearth working :slight_smile:

What i did.

I unmarked the 3D in yast.

Logged out

ctrl alt backspace

When i logged in everything worked fine.

And 3D is marked again?

Sorry i don`t have a logical explanation for this.

Thanks for the help

#9

And it`s back to not working :frowning:

When starting Googleearth it opens a second and closes almost immediately.

This time i get at least a error

Google Earth has caught signal 11.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written
to this text file:

/path/to/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4b76ef08.txt

Major Version 5
Minor Version 1
Build Number 3533
Build Date Nov 11 2009
Build Time 16:41:31
OS Type 11
OS Major Version 2
OS Minor Version 6
OS Build Version 31
OS Patch Version 12
Crash Signal 11
Crash Time 1266085280
Up Time 3.21149

Stacktrace from glibc:
./googleearth-bin[0x805caa6]
[0xffffe400]
[0x856b4f8]

#10

So i did once again

Unmarked the 3D in yast.

Logged out

ctrl alt backspace

When i log in everything works fine.
However after a reboot GE stats crashing again.

#11

you should send your bug report to Google…

–
palladium

#12

I will do that.

Thanks

#13

Try removing/renaming xorg.conf, logout, login, and see it GE acts normal after that. I suspect it’s some setting that causes the crash.

Please start GE from a terminal and post output from there when it crashes.

#14

Tux-2010 wrote:

>
> I will do that.
>
> Thanks
>
>
I too have this issue, and iirc from the NVIDIA forums it is a
driver problem, though maybe dependent on both driver and card. I
found that if using the NVIDIA 173 series driver GE worked.

openSuse 11.2 x64bit, KDE4.4, Opera weekly

#15

Google Earth has caught signal 11.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written
to this text file:

/path/to/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4b78228c.txt

Output from crashlog-4b78228c.txt

Major Version 5
Minor Version 1
Build Number 3533
Build Date Nov 11 2009
Build Time 16:41:31
OS Type 11
OS Major Version 2
OS Minor Version 6
OS Build Version 31
OS Patch Version 12
Crash Signal 11
Crash Time 1266164274
Up Time 3.83728

Stacktrace from glibc:
./googleearth-bin[0x805caa6]
[0xffffe400]
[0x8294488]