On 12/22/18 2:48 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
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
That works.
if that works, run
glxinfo | less
and look for "direct rendering: Yes"
Present.
and SIMILAR entries to these to see
if OpenGL is active:
OpenGL vendor string: ...
Mesa Project and SGI
OpenGL renderer string: ...
Mesa DRI Mobile Intel[A](R) GM45 Express Chipset
[A] is an A with a caret over it, and (R) is the circle with an R in it
OpenGL version string: ...
2.1 Mesa 11.2.2
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.
Google Earth worked on this laptop running Ubuntu 18.
You can see if KDE Marble Virtual Globe runs as a test of your system.
It is available as "marble" in the Education menu.
That works.
I tried running google-earth again. As it was loading, a small window
flashed on the splash image and then disappeared. I minimized
google-earth but nothing was hiding on the desktop. I restored
google-earth. The splash image was gone, but the desktop shows where the
google-earth display should be. I can search for my home address, and it
finds it, but doesn't display it.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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