dpn48312
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Reged: 09/01/06
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When I had my system set to 24 bit color depth, Google Earth would start to load but would crash my entire system before it finished loading. After reading other comments, I changed the color depth to 16 bit. Now Google Earth doesn't even start to load. It just says either I don't have 16 MB of memory (how do I confirm this?) or the drivers are not installed correctly (well, I let SuSE's installer handle that and everything else works OK).
Any ideas how I can fix this and get going with Google Earth?
Thanks!
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lemmy98
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Reged: 04/20/06
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i try to run GE on a suse 10.1 64bit box with an ati xpress 200m, and it hangs on the splash screen. with strace i see an invalid ioctl accessing /dev/dri/card0.
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yu210148
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Reged: 07/22/06
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I know it's not ideal but if you turn off direct rendering and use software emulation most 64 bit boxes have enough horse power to make it work relatively well.
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andyt22
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Reged: 09/09/06
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I'm running Slackware 10.0 with a Matrox Millenium 450 but Google Earth cannot access my graphics card. What did you have to do in your Slack 10.2 installation to get this to work for you?
cheers,
Andy
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lemmy98
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Reged: 04/20/06
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other 3d apps (including neverwinter nights for linux, celestia, and stellarium) that i use more frequently than google earth work fine with hardware 3d with that card, so i don't think i'll switch to software rendering just for GE...
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yu210148
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Reged: 07/22/06
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I'm not quite sure how to do it but it may be possible to write a short shell script to wrap the GE executable binary in that would first switch you over then switch back when exiting.
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lemmy98
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Reged: 04/20/06
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i don't think so, since that would mean modifying /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and restarting the xserver, which in my experience might lead to a crash unless accompanied by a reboot. damn you, ATI.
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Zapitron
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Reged: 08/31/06
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For anyone's future reference....
Modular xorg 7.0 on Gentoo. I got the error message, then edited my xorg.conf file and changed DefaultDepth from 24 to 16. Restarted X and then it worked great.
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Lennart_Boerjeson
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Reged: 09/06/06
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I've posted a problem in http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/585019/page/vc and received the recommendation to repost it here.
I'm running SuSE 10.1 x86_64 with the latest patches on a Dell Precision 490 (two Dual Core Xeons) and using the 1.0.8762 driver from nVidia. The card on the orginal on-board Quadro NVS 285.
The display is completely weird, looks like a random mix of tiles. There seem to be font problems, too, parts of the texts are missing, other visible.
Resizing the display doesn't help, nor does fullscreen, cache options, sizes, etc. Cf. attached screenshots.
This is some various system info (nVidia settings attached as screen dump):
Code:
# uname -a
Linux discordia 2.6.16.21-0.21-smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 29 16:42:05 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Workstation Memory Controller Hub (rev 12)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x4 Port 2 (rev 12)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x4 Port 3 (rev 12)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x16 Port 4-7 (rev 12)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x4 Port 5 (rev 12)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x4 Port 6 (rev 12)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x4 Port 7 (rev 12)
00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server Error Reporting Registers (rev 12)
00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server Error Reporting Registers (rev 12)
00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server Error Reporting Registers (rev 12)
00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Reserved Registers (rev 12)
00:13.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Reserved Registers (rev 12)
00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server FBD Registers (rev 12)
00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server FBD Registers (rev 12)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge High Definition Audio (rev 09)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 09)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge UHCI USB #1 (rev 09)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge UHCI USB #2 (rev 09)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge UHCI USB #3 (rev 09)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge UHCI USB #4 (rev 09)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge EHCI USB (rev 09)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d9)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge LPC (rev 09)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PATA (rev 09)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge SATA AHCI (rev 09)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge SMBus (rev 09)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PCI Express Upstream Port (rev 01)
01:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PCI Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev 01)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PCI Express Downstream Port E1 (rev 01)
02:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PCI Express Downstream Port E2 (rev 01)
05:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61)
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev a1)
0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
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Lennart Börjeson
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ik5pvx
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Reged: 09/19/06
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Hello,
I have the known tiling problem with the following hardware/software config.
Changing detail area, texture colors or anisotropic filtering makes no effect, I always get black areas, or wrong portions of the image replicated in different positions and at different sizes.
Google Earth 4.0.2091 (same thing with previous versions too)
000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 81ae
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 50
Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 3: Memory at d1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Expansion ROM at d2000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) for amd64
Linux penny 2.6.15-26-amd64-k8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 03:11:38 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux
X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8762
Module class: X.Org Server Extension
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8762
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(II) NVIDIA X Driver 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 14:01:11 PDT 2006
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) at PCI:1:0:0
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 262144 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.44.02.11.00
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
Let's hope some developer has time to look into this.
Pf
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