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cchee Apprentice
Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 214 Location: NYC
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: Google Earth ebuild for beta 4 native linux version? |
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Just curious to know if gentoo has ebuild for google earth beta 4 native linux version. Thanks in advance.
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html |
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NaiL Apprentice
Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 228 Location: Spain/BCN
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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(I just see a topic about that that has disapeared. :S)
I don't understand why they are "suporting" open source in things like sumer code, but don't open the source of their programs :S |
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quag7 Apprentice
Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 288 Location: Marana, Arizona - USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:53 am Post subject: |
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Unstable in portage. It might have been a fluke but when I went to emerge it I got an error. But I'd previously downloaded it, not expecting it to be in portage that fast, and I moved the .bin file into the distfiles directory and it installed fine.
It works but I get this message about it running in OpenGL software emulation mode, and it is therefore slow as molasses.
I'm running an Nvidia card with the nvidia drivers installed and working. I'm wondering what alternatives I have to make this run at full speed?
If anyone knows, let me know. I tried commenting out the glx in my xorg.conf but that just resulted in the application not running at all. _________________ http://www.dataswamp.net |
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makomk n00b
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 46 Location: Not all there
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:11 am Post subject: |
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quag7 wrote: | Unstable in portage. It might have been a fluke but when I went to emerge it I got an error. But I'd previously downloaded it, not expecting it to be in portage that fast, and I moved the .bin file into the distfiles directory and it installed fine. |
Looks like Google replaced the .bin file with a different, slightly smaller one without saying or changing the filename |
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lxg Veteran
Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 1019 Location: Aachen, Germany
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:24 am Post subject: |
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I just emerged x11-misc/googleearth... runs like a charm. _________________ lxg.de – codebits and tech talk |
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tmske Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 141
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:05 am Post subject: |
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I see the splash screen and then I get a segmentation fault |
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Zarhan l33t
Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 994
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Starts up, but gives me performance in the ballpark of 5 seconds per frame. Not exactly usable. Processor load is minimal, so I don't know what to make of this. Maybe disabling composite in Xorg would help...have to test. |
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mvr_rennes Apprentice
Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 155
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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For me it starts up, but complains about not being able to identify the video card (while at the same time having Xlib messages saying no GLX extension was found).
I'm running the latest nvidia drivers on a 6600GT, which works well with everything else.
Any clues on this?
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M |
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ikshaar Veteran
Joined: 23 Jul 2002 Posts: 1339 Location: Baltimore, MD
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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Woo... runs very nice. Never used it under Windows... just spend one hour playing around
Minor problem is if I run it under Xgl... control are not refreshed when zooming the window (need to minimize-maximize to refresh it).
Zarhan: to address slow performance, try to check that you have accelerated 3D setup.
mvr_rennes: Using nvidia driver is not enough, you need to load glx module too in xorg.conf _________________ "May God stands between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk" - Babylon 5 |
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mvr_rennes Apprentice
Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 155
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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I do have the GLX extension loaded...
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
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Section "Module"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
EndSection
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$ xdpyinfo | grep -i glx
NV-GLX
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Any other tips? |
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Zarhan l33t
Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 994
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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ikshaar wrote: |
Zarhan: to address slow performance, try to check that you have accelerated 3D setup.
mvr_rennes: Using nvidia driver is not enough, you need to load glx module too in xorg.conf |
It is. i915 chipset and glxinfo says that Direct rendering is active. |
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mvr_rennes Apprentice
Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 155
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Ok... got it working... Turns out I had some symbolic links missing since the last driver install... Libtool problem, maybe?
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quag7 Apprentice
Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 288 Location: Marana, Arizona - USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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mvr_rennes wrote: | Ok... got it working... Turns out I had some symbolic links missing since the last driver install... Libtool problem, maybe?
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Did you simply re-install the drivers? I tried doing that and still it can't identify my card, which is: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]
Edit:
I uninstalled nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, deleted .googleearth in my home directory, rmmod'ed the nvidia driver, reinstalled nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx and did the eselect opengl set nvidia as indicated by the ebuild. Did this twice (probably missed a step), and now it works, and quite well so far. _________________ http://www.dataswamp.net |
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revertex l33t
Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 806
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:32 am Post subject: |
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better than windows version, there is no hiccups in the linux version. |
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mark_alec Bodhisattva
Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 6066 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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