On 2006-11-24 Ozzy Lash wrote: > On 11/24/06, Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > Has anybody managed to get GoogleEarth (latest version) running on amd64? > > I tried the fglrx drivers from unstable and experimental and both work > > according to fglrxinfo and fgl_glgears. > > > > Just if GoogleEarth starts either from amd64 or from inside an i386 > > chroot (which had the matching fglrx versions installed), I can see the > > start logo and then GoogleEarth freezes. With strace I see very much of > > those lines at the end: > > futex(0x819898c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 > > futex(0x819898c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 > > futex(0x819898c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 > > futex(0x819898c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 > > futex(0x819898c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 > > ... > > I had this problem for quite a while until I found the advice at: > http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/620003/page/0/fpart/2/vc/1 > > Basically I found an older version of the driver and grabbed the i386 > version of libGL.so and put it in the google-earth directory with all > of the other libraries. It now seems to work, although I haven't used > it extensively after that.
When using the libGL.so.1 from fglrx64_6_8_0-8.26.18-1.x86_64.rpm, googleearth starts up but notices me that it runs in software emulation mode :-( Any other ideas? bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
