Official Ati-driver 8.40.4 doesn't work with googleearth?

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walterguo · Post by **walterguo** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:08 pm

I just upgrade to latest Ati-driver 8.40.4, but unfortunately googleearth doesn't work anymore. since I just unmerge beryl, don't exactly if the new drivers comparable with googleearth? Anyway, fgl_fglxgears works. How about yours?

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:50 pm

Yes it hangs at the splash-screen. I have already seen others reporting the issue.
See for example: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=774

Roman_Gruber · Post by **Roman_Gruber** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:53 pm

hi,

My experience: I have tried several times google earth on gentoo, amd64. Always the same result. It hangs at the splash screen. I have used different versions of ati-drivers/gentoo-sources/suspend2-sources. I have given up to get it working. LAst time I tried was a month ago.

I know that doesn*T help, sorry.

walterguo · Post by **walterguo** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:35 pm

so downgrade!

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:15 pm

walterguo wrote:so downgrade!

No. Use X.org drivers!*

*Which work very well. At least for my 9500.

cWal · Post by **cWal** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:03 am

If you want to use graphical applications, use Windows. Especially if you have an ATI card

Linux is just for fun and learning to a better skill. It's useless for a serious job, at least while there are no drivers !

Sorry, but I am so upset to be unable to use some nice apps with Gentoo

fuzzythebear · Post by **fuzzythebear** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 1:20 am

Stop the presses .. betcha it's the old libGL.so.1 saga
popping right back at you.

there's been a lot of talk around here on how to solve the hangning
that occurs at the splash.

all ill say is that by replacing the libGL.so.1 by an older one in the
/opt/googleearth directory a lot of us have been able to make it work.

Do make a search for googleearth on the forums , you will
find numerous threads.

Fuzzy

walterguo · Post by **walterguo** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:36 pm

Blaine wrote:
walterguo wrote:so downgrade!
No. Use X.org drivers!*

*Which work very well. At least for my 9500.

Unfortunately, opensource driver seems do not support ati x1300 x1400 ......

ok · Post by ok » Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:04 pm

I had the same problem with Google earth and ati-drivers-8.40.4.
The following steps solved the problem for me (running ~x86):

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$ ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1.ebuild unpack
$ cp /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1/work/arch/x86/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /opt/googleearth/
$ cd /opt/googleearth
$ ln -s libGL.so.1.2 libGL.so.1
$ rm -r /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/

I tried ati-drivers version 8.39.4 and 8.35.5 but they don't work.

pitat450 · Post by **pitat450** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:15 am

great! it works with the newest drivers & kernel
thanx

Coltie · Post by **Coltie** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:38 pm

That's what I call a good trick!

Big up the forumers!

peakeyed · Post by **peakeyed** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:49 pm

thanks Mr. ok. It works great with your tip

aceperry · Post by **aceperry** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:30 am

Following the advice of OK and others, I just copied the file from googleearth's directory and put it in my system's library directory. In my case, I'm using the latest version of googleearth, 4.2.0198.2451 but the file name happened to be /opt/googleearth/libGLU.so.1 so I had to change it and copy to /usr/lib64/xorg/libGL.so.1.2 because lots of links were pointing to it. BTW, I didn't know that the libGL file came with the googleearth distribution. Thanks to everyone's help, I got googleearth running again. Its a great app.

Official Ati-driver 8.40.4 doesn't work with googleearth?

Official Ati-driver 8.40.4 doesn't work with googleearth?

works great

Finally got it working for AMD64