On 12/22/18 3:42 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > 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. >
Dick, Ok, your xorg server and mesa appear to be running correctly. Did you download the 32-bit or the 64-bit source package from SBo? Its working on a Slackware64-current box here, I'll test on the Slackware64-14.2 once I have that one reassembled. Open a terminal and run google-earth-pro to see if it spits out any complaints. -Ed
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