Following up on this bug report, I get these messages in kernel log when starting google earth:
Oct 23 22:50:42 kitchencomp kernel: [ 3142.329445] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: DATA_ERROR nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT PROTECTION_FAULT Oct 23 22:50:42 kitchencomp kernel: [ 3142.329463] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH - ch 2/7 class 0x0099 mthd 0x03bc data 0x00000014 Oct 23 22:50:42 kitchencomp kernel: [ 3142.343422] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: DATA_ERROR nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT PROTECTION_FAULT Oct 23 22:50:42 kitchencomp kernel: [ 3142.343440] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH - ch 2/7 class 0x0099 mthd 0x03bc data 0x00000014 Oct 23 22:50:42 kitchencomp kernel: [ 3142.347430] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: DATA_ERROR nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT PROTECTION_FAULT Oct 23 22:50:42 kitchencomp kernel: [ 3142.347448] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH - ch 2/7 class 0x0099 mthd 0x03bc data 0x00000014 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069270 Title: [quantal][regression] googleearth 3d graphics don't work with nvidia GeForce4 card Status in “mesa” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After upgrade to quantal, which I believe caused an upgrade in mesa from 8.x to 9.0, I can no longer use googleearth. Previously, it worked pretty well using the mesa DRI driver. The only problems were that borders sometimes showed through the earth from over the horizon, and it was necessary to turn off the atmosphere display. After the upgrade, from any altitude the surface of the globe appears as large rectangles, sometimes with various more or less triangular shapes. See attached screen shot. I tried this first with both libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-dri- experimental installed. I then removed libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental, powered off and rebooted. It didn't make a difference. My graphics card is: NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000] ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Oct 20 23:01:03 2012 InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) SourcePackage: mesa UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-20 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1069270/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
