hello
my system:
hp elitebook 8560w
opensuse 13.2 x86_64
nvidia drivers -> installer (install script) from nvidia: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.96.bin
hwinfo --gfx
23: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.328]
Unique ID: VCu0.eQaqp53EUu7
Parent ID: vSkL.zG5hGKNZlz7
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Device Name: "0"
Model: "nVidia GF108GLM [Quadro 1000M]"
Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
Device: pci 0x0dfa "GF108GLM [Quadro 1000M]"
SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
SubDevice: pci 0x1631
Revision: 0xa1
Driver: "nvidia"
Driver Modules: "nvidia"
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd0ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xc7ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xc8000000-0xc9ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0x4000-0x4fff (rw)
Memory Range: 0xd1080000-0xd10fffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 57 (32397 events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000DFAsv0000103Csd00001631bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: nouveau is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: nvidia is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #10 (PCI bridge)
Primary display adapter: #23
tried to use google-earth-stable-7.1.7.2600-0 (google download rpm) but it only shows a black screen and greyed out menus.
rpm -Uhv google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
zypper se -s google-earth
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
--+---------------------+---------+--------------+--------+------------------
i | google-earth-stable | package | 7.1.7.2600-0 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
v | google-earth-stable | package | 6.0.3.2197-0 | x86_64 | google-earth
heikoundchristine@elitebook8560w-hs:~/.googleearth> zypper in -f google-earth-stable-6.0.3.2197-0
switched back to google-earth-stable-6.0.3.2197-0.x86_64
zypper in -f google-earth-stable-6.0.3.2197-0
this version complains about missing libsm library
zypper se libsm
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
--+---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------
| libSM-devel | Development files for the X Session Managemen-> | package
| libSM-devel-32bit | Development files for the X Session Managemen-> | package
i | libSM6 | X Session Management library | package
| libSM6-32bit | X Session Management library | package
| libsmartcols-devel | Development files for libsmartcols1 | package
| libsmartcols-devel-static | Development files for libsmartcols1 | package
i | libsmartcols1 | Column-based text sort engine | package
| libsmbclient-devel | Libraries and Header Files to Develop Program-> | package
| libsmbclient-raw-devel | Development files for Samba4's raw SMB client-> | package
i | libsmbclient-raw0 | Samba4's raw SMB client library | package
i | libsmbclient-raw0-32bit | Samba4's raw SMB client library | package
i | libsmbclient0 | Samba Client Library | package
| libsmbclient0-32bit | Samba Client Library | package
| libsmbconf-devel | Development files for the Samba3 configuratio-> | package
i | libsmbconf0 | Samba3 configuration library | package
i | libsmbconf0-32bit | Samba3 configuration library | package
| libsmbios-devel | Development files for libsmios | package
| libsmbios2 | Libraries to get information from standard BI-> | package
| libsmbldap-devel | Development files for the smbldap library | package
i | libsmbldap0 | Samba LDAP protocol helper function library | package
i | libsmbldap0-32bit | Samba LDAP protocol helper function library | package
| libsmbsharemodes-devel | Libraries and Header Files to Develop Program-> | package
| libsmbsharemodes0 | Samba smbsharemodes Library | package
| libsmdev-devel | Development files for libsmdev, a storage med-> | package
| libsmdev-tools | Utilities for reading storage media devices t-> | package
| libsmdev1 | Library to access storage media devices | package
i | libsmi | A Library to Access SMI MIB Information | package
| libsmi-devel | Libsmi Header Files And Static Libraries | package
i | libsmi2 | Libsmi Shared Libraries | package
| libsmokegen-devel | Development files for kdebindings-smokegen | package
| libsmokekde-devel | Development files for libsmokekde | package
| libsmokekde3 | Kdebindings Smoke-kde library | package
| libsmokeqt | SMOKE-Qt library for kdebindings | package
| libsmokeqt-devel | Development files for libsmokeqt | package
| libsmpeg | SDL MPEG Library | srcpackage
| libsmpeg-0_4-0 | SDL MPEG Library | package
| libsmpeg-0_4-0-debuginfo | Debug information for package libsmpeg-0_4-0 | package
| libsmpeg-debugsource | Debug sources for package libsmpeg | package
| libsmpeg-devel | SDL MPEG Library | package
| libsmpeg2 | SDL2 MPEG Library | srcpackage
| libsmpeg2-2_0-0 | SDL2 MPEG Library | package
| libsmpeg2-2_0-0-debuginfo | Debug information for package libsmpeg2-2_0-0 | package
| libsmpeg2-debugsource | Debug sources for package libsmpeg2 | package
| libsmpeg2-devel | SDL2 MPEG Library | package
| libsmputils-devel | Development files for the SAS SMP Expander Co-> | package
i | libsmputils1-1 | Library for SAS SMP control of expanders | package
| libsmraw-devel | Development files for libsmraw, a (split) RAW-> | package
| libsmraw-tools | Utilities for reading and writing storage med-> | package
| libsmraw1 | Library and tools to access the (split) RAW i-> | package
| python-libsmdev | Python bindings for libsmdev | package
| python-libsmraw | Python bindings for libsmraw
installed missing library:
zypper in libSM6-32bit
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following 3 NEW packages are going to be installed:
libICE6-32bit libSM6-32bit libuuid1-32bit
also deleted user files from google-earth in:
cd ~/.config/Google/
ll
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 username users 985 8. Sep 16:46 GoogleEarthPlus.conf
rm -r GoogleEarthPlus.conf
and
cd ~/.googleearth
ll
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 username users 6214 12. Apr 2014 GECommonSettings.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 username users 2210 8. Sep 16:11 GoogleEarthPlus.conf
rm -r GECommonSettings.conf
rm -r GoogleEarthPlus.conf
now google-earth-stable version 6.0.3.2197-0 works…
updating to google-earth-stable version 7.1.7.2600-0 and earth only shows black screen and greyed out menus…
is there any chance to use to newer version ?