Cool!!!!!!!!! Worked! Thanks, Mike.
Theresa On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 14:14 -0600, Mike Bigalke wrote: > You need the compiz fusion icon from Synaptic, so you can turn compiz > off when you use Google Earth. It will install under > applications> system tools. When you start it an icon shows in the > upper right hand panel. A right click will let you choose metacity > instead of compiz. Select it and start Google Earth. > > That will solve the video problem. However, I've had a few problems > with turning compiz back on after leaving Google Earth. It freezes up > the system about 50% of the time. But control-alt-backspace solves > that. > > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
