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I'm running Ubuntu Hardy 64bit with an ATI 9600 GFX card. Google earth installed fault free and when I clicked 'start' to run it for the first time everything looked fine.
The problem is now that I'm trying to run it again there's no Earth just a very faint starry background and no 'hub' to control anything. The starry background rotates smoothly so can't be 3D drivers. I've tried running from the menu and from terminal without success.
googleearth doesn't always work well on desktops which use compositing (compiz/beryl and xfwm/metacity compositing). Probably if you switch off desktop effects it will work fine.
You are looking at the sky, for some reason they made this the default on first start up, I believe you can switch to Earth view somewhere in the View menu.
You are looking at the sky, for some reason they made this the default on first start up, I believe you can switch to Earth view somewhere in the View menu.
I have Google Earth running now on Mandriva 2008.0 and there are two icons on the top bar. One looks like sunrise while the other shows a planet - saturn. Click on either one to get the desired result.
I have Google Earth running now on Mandriva 2008.0 and there are two icons on the top bar. One looks like sunrise while the other shows a planet - saturn. Click on either one to get the desired result.
Tony Littlejohn
Nope, nothing there, bored of it now, back to Windows where it works. Sorry.
Well it's so easy to give up,isn't it? The problem looks like is related to new ATI drivers and solution is very simple.For all interested follow this link.
Well it's so easy to give up,isn't it? The problem looks like is related to new ATI drivers and solution is very simple.For all interested follow this link.
Are you sure? Same thing happens on my NVidia machine.
I don't think it's a driver problem, because when I ran it for the first time, every thing is ok. The earth doesn't show up since the second time I ran it.
I don't think it's a driver problem, because when I ran it for the first time, every thing is ok. The earth doesn't show up since the second time I ran it.
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