Re: Google Earth and nVidia [SOLVED]

2008-06-13 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 21:30 -0400, Mike Williams wrote: 2008/6/12 Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But when I start the new googleearth as a normal user, I still don't see the globe or the controls. It works fine if I start it as root. The SEtroublesooter doesn't complain, either.

Re: Google Earth and nVidia [SOLVED]

2008-06-13 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 21:24 -0700, Les wrote: Just a guess here, but check where google earth is installed and in the temp directory to see if any files were created as root. Temp or rc or init files being set to root will often keep user applications from starting in linux and unix systems

Re: Google Earth and nVidia [SOLVED]

2008-06-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:00:37 +0930 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You become the super user to install, you install, the installation's final step offers to run the newly installed program, and you end up running it as the root user. I installed google earth a little while back and there was no

Re: Google Earth and nVidia [SOLVED]

2008-06-13 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 08:23 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:00:37 +0930 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You become the super user to install, you install, the installation's final step offers to run the newly installed program, and you end up running it as the root user.