Google Earth Community: Linux Drivers - "Could not access Graphics Card"

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