Hiya, all. I got a new toy (shiny!) -- built a machine with Intel Core 2 Duo processor (7400), mainboard is Intel DG35EC, which has the Intel GMA X3500 video chipset -- it supports HD, compiz looks GORGEOUS (now I finally get to see what y'all have been talking about for so long!), using DVI video output to a 22" widescreen LCD, 4GB of DDR2 dual channel RAM. I have CompizConfig Settings Manager installed, and current resolution is 1680 x 1050 at 60 Hz (what Ubuntu detected during install).
So I figured what better way to play with the new toy, than to install Google Earth? Version 5 beta was a flop -- got rid of a library it didn't like to finally get it to run, but it still demanded I run it with 'sudo' (and running an end-user desktop as root? BAD IDEA). So I uninstalled it, and installed the prior version instead, 4.3. That doesn't require me to run it as root, which is a good step. Bad part is, the video is CRAP! I mean, absolutely terrible. I found at least one other Ubuntu (oh yeah, 8.10 clean install) user who has had the same problem, and they posted a screen shot: http://erani.rideamus.md/gebug.png When I did have version 5 beta running, the video was exactly the same -- complete crap. Does anyone have any suggestions I could try? Thanks in advance, Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
