I’m running openSUSE 11.4 (i586) and have problems installing GoogleEarth
Any help / advice appreciated.
Version 5.2 will not install, output as follows
jens@linux-m6e5:~/Updates/googleearth> sh GoogleEarthLinux-5.2.bin
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 5.2.1.1588..........................
I/O error : No such file or directory
setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
./setup.sh: line 158: 2540 Segmentation fault "$setup" "$@"
jens@linux-m6e5:~/Updates/googleearth>
Version 6 installs ok but will not run, the ‘Googleearth’ and ‘startup tip’ windows open
but then nothing else happens until program is terminated
output from cmd ldd shows
jens@linux-m6e5:/opt/google/earth/free> ldd googleearth-bin
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libgoogleearth_free.so => not found
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Note:
lsb version 4.0-12.1 is installed
Mesa version 7.10-3.3 is installed
I normally start googleearth from the icon which uses the cmd, /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth %f
but the result is the same if it is started with sh /opt/google/earth/free/googleearth
or sh /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth
thanks stamostolias and google01103 for your suggestions but I’m still stuck,
after trying everything
the only other anomally I’ve noticed on this machine is with glxgears,
the response is a black screen in the terminal window
jens@linux-m6e5:/lib> glxgears
*** NOTE: Don't use glxgears as a benchmark.
OpenGL implementations are not optimized for frame rates >> 60fps,
thus these numbers are meaningless when compared between vendors.
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
after 34 requests (34 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
jens@linux-m6e5:/lib>
this I’ve seen on many distributions and sooner or later its resolve by an update
to the best of my knowledge the PC setup is as follows
I suspect ‘Size & Orientation-System Settings’ info is kept elsewhere, as the
Primary output is set to DVI-0, but is not visible below.
set-up details,
OS Information
OS: Linux 2.6.38-18-desktop i686
Current user: jens@linux-m6e5
System: openSUSE 11.4 (i586)
KDE: 4.6.1 (4.6.1) "release 390"
Display Info
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
Model: Radeon X1650
2D driver: radeon
3D driver: R300 Gallium (7.10)
NO_KMS_IN_INITRD=default (have had it set ‘yes’ but makes no difference)
No ‘nomodeset’ in boot cmd line (if introduced, can only boot terminal mode)
thinking that maybe you have a graphics problem and not a googleearth problem, if that’s the case you’d be better off starting a new graphics titled thread
if you upgraded to 11.4 did you also upgrade your graphics driver? do effects work in either compiz or kwin?
if you dl ksudoku can you play the 3d version called “Roxdoku 9”?
Major Version 6
Minor Version 0
Build Number 0001
Build Date Dec 10 2010
Build Time 22:42:27
OS Type 3
OS Major Version 2
OS Minor Version 6
OS Build Version 38
OS Patch Version 0
Crash Signal 6
Crash Time 1301707319
Up Time 0.057226
Stacktrace from glibc:
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xac2a3)[0xb76bc2a3]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xac423)[0xb76bc423]
[0xffffe400]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6de2b)[0xb5226e2b]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN6QImage4loadERK7QStringPKc+0xd3)[0xb6abadb3]
./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN6QImageC1ERK7QStringPKc+0x4a)[0xb6abae5a]
./libcommon.so(_ZNK5earth6common13QImageFactory9GetQImageERK7QStringS4_+0x9f)[0xb4eedeaf]
./libcommon.so(_ZNK5earth6common13QImageFactory10GetQPixmapERK7QStringS4_+0x44)[0xb4eedf14]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application17SetupSplashScreenEv+0xc5)[0xb76be295]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3runEv+0x228)[0xb76c6158]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xaad1b)[0xb76bad1b]
./libgoogleearth_free.so(earthmain+0x247)[0xb76bbed7]
./googleearth-bin[0x804871b]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe)[0xb51cfc2e]
Section “Module”
– Disable “dri”
– Disable “dri2”
– EndSection
is added to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/file 50-device.conf
Option “AccelMethod” “XAA”
– is added to the Section “Device” of file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/file 50-device.conf
set NO_KMS_IN_INITRD to 'yes
set nomodeset boot cmd line
This switches off 3D acceleration and allows googeearth to run, but very slow.
It also selects the incorrect graphics card and limits output to the vga monitor.
Not an acceptable solution, better to forget about googleearth