I installed GE on Kubuntu Dapper using builtin ATI driver, everything worked fine (considering not having 3D accel). However, I upgraded my video drivers using ATI's brand & installer. After upgrading the drivers & cold booting, again, the rest of the desktop worked fine. However, now GE freezes on startup on the splash screen (though not locking up puter), using the K menu link, console command, as regular user, and as sudo. I've tried deleting all installed files, both in /opt and in my home dir (uninstall script errors out), then reinstalling. Still nothing. I haven't tried going back to my old video driver yet, but I don't see that changing anything. I also ran GE using strace with the command "strace -o ge googleearth" as a regular user, then ctrl+c to end the prog when it froze. However, I don't understand the output. This is on a Compaq laptop with the ATI Radeon xpress 200M (RS480 5955) w/ 128MB shared mem using driver v8.29.06. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Jeremy