Bruno_Bowden
Master Guide
Reged: 03/11/04
Posts: 205
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Please change the title of all replies to the name of the graphics card being discussed - to help people find relevant information.
This post is a staging point for questions and answers for graphics card driver problems for Linux Google Earth. Since the Linux community is so strong, we thought it would be better place to address these problems.
Edited by Bruno_Bowden (07/05/06 02:07 PM)
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Marshall_Hampton
Tourist
Reged: 06/13/06
Posts: 2
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I am having running Google Earth on a desktop machine which has Ubuntu 6.06 installed, an Nvidia 6600 graphics card, and a Dell 2405 monitor (24" widescreen, its nice but it often messes up linux). I thought I had installed the nvidia driver correctly but perhaps not.
I'll attach my xorg.conf file as I suspect that might be the source of the problem.
Thanks for any help!
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yu210148
Tourist
Reged: 07/22/06
Posts: 8
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Hi all,
I suspect that the problem is that my video card is what eBayers refer to as "Vintage" but for the record I thought I'd mention that Google Earth Beta 4 fails on my PIII 500 with the above video card. The last output from the program is:
Google Earth can't run on your machine as it could not access the graphics card. This is likely to be caused by one of the following:
1) The graphics card is not powerful enought to run Google Earth (it must have a minimum of 16 MB of VRAM).
2) This machine does not have the graphics card drivers installed correctly.
ttyl
kev.
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yu210148
Tourist
Reged: 07/22/06
Posts: 8
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Again, for the record:
Upgrading the box to an AMD 64 X2 2200 with 2GB of ram on SuSE 10.1 in software mode fixes the problem.
Yes, I'm running the above with a Voodoo 3 2000 video card--at lest until I can afford to upgrade that.
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Fabrice_Yerly
First Post
Reged: 08/05/06
Posts: 1
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Hello everybody,
Today I tried to install Google earth on a stable Sarge, with a Matrox G550. The program does not recognize my graphic card.
Does anybody have an idea about a possible cause?
Thank you in advance for any idea...
best regards to all LinuX community
Fabrice
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alligator424
First Post
Reged: 08/21/06
Posts: 1
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Hi,
I have a matrox millenium G450 with the last linux driver under ubuntu Dapper and the graphic card is not recognized by google earth. Perhaps is it the not 32 but 24 bit depth?
this card is ok for google earth under w2k...
please help!
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whizzit
Tourist
Reged: 08/27/06
Posts: 2
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Same here but I have found a working setup using the (latest) beta drivers from Matrox (matrox_driver-x86_32-4.4.0.tar.gz). However they only officially support up to Xorg v6.8.2.
$ lspci | grep Matrox
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. G400/G450 (rev 82)
$ xdpyinfo | grep "X.Org version"
X.Org version: 6.8.2
$ glxinfo | head -5
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
And my sections in the xorg.conf/XF86Config file. Be sure to drop the DefaultDepth to 16 in the Screen section ;-) since it doesn't seem to work with 24 bit on my system. In fact that might be worth trying before installing the new drivers....
Hopefully this will work for you too.
Grant
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox_G450.0"
Driver "mga"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "HWcursor" "On"
Clocks 360
VideoRam 32768
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 0"
Device "Matrox_G450.0"
Monitor "Dell"
DefaultDepth 16
#DefaultDepth 24
#DefaultFbBpp 32
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
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Accornehl
Tourist
Reged: 05/19/06
Posts: 39
Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA
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What Distribution are you using? I've gotten GE and my Matrox 450 to work with Gentoo 2006 and not much more, seemingly because of the VA Linux Mesa drivers installed with 6.8.2
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Let the mind beware, that though the project be buggy, the circumstances of software testing are pretty damn glorious.
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whizzit
Tourist
Reged: 08/27/06
Posts: 2
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I achieved this using Slackware 10.2. If you think there might be more details from my system that could help just let me know.
I have an unfortunate side effect from this that Firefox crashes when loading sites containing swf content @ 16 bit...
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Robert_Lipe
GPS Guru
Reged: 06/04/06
Posts: 203
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My Dell's planar video was a Rage XL. Knowing that it didn't do fancy video, I upgraded my Fedora Core 5 box to a Radeon 9200, smug in the knowledge that the same chip when used in a Mac Mini worked OK with Earth. (Yes, I know that all the software BETWEEN Earth and the video card is different, but it seemed like reasonable reasoning.)
After the upgrade, Earth no longer complains about the video but the performance is stunningly bad. Even when there is no animation, menus take tens of seconds to react. The host CPU is often pegged at 100%. In short, it works very much like before I upgraded to a video card that reported XFree-DRI=yes in xdpyinfo.
Everything else works acceptably well, but I'll admit my multimedia standards are pretty low.
Any advice on things to check with this combination are welcome.
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Creator, Lead developer of GPSBabel
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