Google Earth and fglrx 8.29.6 won't load.

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tdb · Post by **tdb** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:32 pm

I recently upgraded my kernel to gentoo-sources 2.6.18, which requied an upgrade to ati-drivers 8.29.6. Now, when I start Google Earth, it shows the first splash screen, then just hangs. When I tried launching the binary directly with /opt/googleearth/googleearth-bin, I get:

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<tdb@ferrari:~>
[Sat Oct 21,02:21 PM] /opt/googleearth/googleearth-bin 
/opt/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: ./libcomponent.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have an Acer Ferrari 4005 with a native AMD64 install. I downloaded the most recent binary from the Google Earth website, and installed it using portage. I tried searching around for libcomponent, but did not find a great deal of info. There is one other post from back in June that mentions the same problem, but I did not find a resolution.

Any help?

alterEg0 · Post by **alterEg0** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:40 pm

Thats strange... how can a library disappear after upgrading kernel/drivers? Because the error is "no such file". I have that file and im using 2.6.17 and 8.29.6 on x86, g.earth works ok.
So if i understood correctly, it used to work ok and upgrading the kernel and therefore ati drivers made it break?

tdb · Post by **tdb** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:01 pm

alterEg0 wrote:Thats strange... how can a library disappear after upgrading kernel/drivers? Because the error is "no such file". I have that file and im using 2.6.17 and 8.29.6 on x86, g.earth works ok.
So if i understood correctly, it used to work ok and upgrading the kernel and therefore ati drivers made it break?

Apparently so. I am surprised as well, since libcomponent.so is installed and present in the /opt/googleearth/ directory. It worked on the earlier 2.6.17 series of kernels, but not with 2.6.17-r7 and above. I tried downgrading the ati-drivers package, but unfortunately the 8.29.6 series is the only version that will compile properly against the newer kernels.

Fukai · Post by **Fukai** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:00 pm

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/opt/googleearth/googleearth-bin

This is wrong. Because you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
the correcty path is /usr/bin/googleearth, this is a wrapper that set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

But this dont help too because google earth only works with 8.27. :S

tdb · Post by **tdb** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:49 pm

Fukai wrote:
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/opt/googleearth/googleearth-bin
This is wrong. Because you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
the correcty path is /usr/bin/googleearth, this is a wrapper that set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I realized that last night. Calling googleearth-bin directly isn't setting the proper library paths. The most recent Google Earth also moved all of the files from /usr/bin to /opt/googleearth.

But this dont help too because google earth only works with 8.27. :S

That sucks, as the 8.27 and 8.28 series of fglrx won't even install on a 2.6.17 or higher.

alterEg0 · Post by **alterEg0** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:34 pm

Fukai wrote:But this dont help too because google earth only works with 8.27. :S

It works on x86 with 8.29.6. Do you mean that for amd64?

Fukai · Post by **Fukai** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:53 pm

alterEg0 wrote:
Fukai wrote:But this dont help too because google earth only works with 8.27. :S
It works on x86 with 8.29.6. Do you mean that for amd64?

Ohh, sorry, yes, incomplete information by me

. This don't work on my amd64 with XPRESS 200M.

sharkk · Post by **sharkk** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:00 am

i'm on a amd64 , kernel linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 and driver-ati 8.29.6

when i launch googleearth it start the splash screen and remain blocked on "Initializing"

tdb · Post by **tdb** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:39 pm

Just noticed that Google released a new version of Google Earth Beta 4 for Linux dated November 1. Still does not work. Still hangs on the initialization screen.