On 12/22/18 2:17 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > I tried installing and running Google Earth on my Slackware laptop. The > build and install worked. Then I ran the symlink as instructed: > >---snip--- > > When I launch google-earth the surrounding window loads, and the splash > graphic shows up in the frame where the display goes, but that's where > it stops. I was warned that X would hang, but it didn't. I was able to > close google-earth, and the rest of the system seems normal. > > Further reading says I need OpenGL drivers, but it doesn't say which > ones. In slackbuilds.org I find PyOpenGl, haskell-OpenGL, and > haskell-OpenGLRaw. Are any of those what I need?
NO! > > The slackbuilds page also says I need to configure Xorg to use them. > Where can I read up on how to do that? If you run KDE and/or Xfce, X.org is already configured - they won't run without it. The SBo page just has that warning because some people do not install X.org. > > Thanks. > Dick The open source OpenGL drivers are already included in the standard Slackware installation, based on whatever garphic chip (GPU) your system is using. DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR INSTALL ANYTHING WITH OPENGL IN THE FILE NAME. To test, open a terminal and run glxgears if that works, run glxinfo | less and look for "direct rendering: Yes" and SIMILAR entries to these to see if OpenGL is active: OpenGL vendor string: ... OpenGL renderer string: ... OpenGL version string: ... I do not know the GPU chip you have so showing you my values will not help, thus "..." It may simply be the case that your computer does not support running Google Earth because the version of OpenGL needed for you GPU is too old. You can see if KDE Marble Virtual Globe runs as a test of your system. It is available as "marble" in the Education menu. -Ed
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