no 'Earth' on Google earth

blastradius · 05-24-2008, 02:00 AM

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.

How do I get the thing to work?

Thanks

Eric

P.S. I'm using Gnome

Takla · 05-24-2008, 05:42 AM

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.

blastradius · 05-24-2008, 06:13 AM

I have visual effects switched off already. It's strange that there are no errors.

jjtv · 06-10-2008, 03:24 AM

I have the same problem on ubuntu 7.10, with nvidia

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Originally Posted by blastradius

I have visual effects switched off already. It's strange that there are no errors.

alan_ri · 06-10-2008, 05:18 AM

Guys,install "ia32-libs"and "lib32nss-mdns"packages and please post if that helped.

blastradius · 06-11-2008, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by alan_ri

Guys,install "ia32-libs"and "lib32nss-mdns"packages and please post if that helped.

Already got the newest versions installed. Still no luck though.

elliott678 · 06-11-2008, 01:00 AM

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.

blastradius · 06-11-2008, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by elliott678

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.

Looked for it but can't find it anywhere!

Tony Littlejohn · 06-11-2008, 01:19 PM

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

blastradius · 06-11-2008, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Tony Littlejohn

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.

alan_ri · 06-12-2008, 03:13 AM

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.

jjtv · 06-13-2008, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by alan_ri

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.

alan_ri · 06-13-2008, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by jjtv

Are you sure? Same thing happens on my NVidia machine.

What are the errors that you get?
See if something on this link will help you;http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat....page=0&fpart=3

jjtv · 06-14-2008, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by alan_ri

What are the errors that you get?
See if something on this link will help you;http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat....page=0&fpart=3

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.

alan_ri · 06-15-2008, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by jjtv

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.

Start it from the terminal and post the output.