I've found Google Earth to be a little hit-and-miss with certain combinations of distribution and video card/drivers. Although I haven't seen it turn the video wonky until after it was started... Were you installing a pre-built .deb for Synaptic package, or did you download the .bin directly from Google and follow the instructions to build your own package? (which can be fraught with perils itself, but may generate a usable package for your system). Sometimes it's a matter of it trying to use a particular library that isn't a good match for your distribution and googling for it reveals that someone out there has figured out that you need to do something like ln -s / usr/lib64/myvideo.lib /opt/google-earth/drivers or something (that was just a random example, don't try it! :-> )
One final tip - if you get it working but it's slower than a 286, turn off Atmosphere. On Dec 21, 9:47 am, timadam <[email protected]> wrote: > I installed Ubuntu last week and I am seriously impressed. Microsoft > has obviously been left in the dust. The last time I used any command > line stuff was DOS. bash is sooo much better, I can not say enough. > I only wish I had made the switch before now. I guess I am preaching > to the quire . . . > anyway, I was wondering if any one has had much luck with google earth > on a dell notebook under Ubuntu. When I tried, I had a little display > issue (everything went all modern art on me). Got any good links that > might help me? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
