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I have problems with GE, I was able to install it successfully but everytime i try to open it it freezes my whole computer and i have to manually restart my laptop.......Any idea why this is happening?
by the way, I running slackware 12.1....
thanks before hand.....
What video card are you using? I think Google Earth requires OpenGL, so that's a possibility. I also seem to remember another thread about this a while ago, so you should search the forums to see if anything else comes up.
T3slider
Do you have DRI enabled? What is the output of
Code:
$ glxinfo | grep direct
What video card are you using? I think Google Earth requires OpenGL, so that's a possibility. I also seem to remember another thread about this a while ago, so you should search the forums to see if anything else comes up.
this is the output:
Quote:
glxinfo |grep direct
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
That's almost certainly your problem (direct rendering is not enabled, but Google Earth requires it). Please post the output of
Code:
# lspci -vv
and
Code:
# lsmod
as root. Surround your output with [_CODE] and [_/CODE] tags (without the _) to make it easier to read. You should be able to search the forums in order to find a guide on enabling DRI, but if you can't find anything I'd be more than happy to help (as would others). It is highly dependent on the model of your video card though, so the `lspci -vv` output is critical to determine the correct solution.
I don't have an ATI card, so I don't know how much help I can be, but I think you need to get the proprietary ATI drivers from AMD (version 8.6 is out now and will probably do the trick). There are SlackBuilds for the 8.4 version of fglrx (the ATI driver) at slackbuilds.org. You could try the 8.4 driver or change the version number in the SlackBuilds and try the 8.6 version. For information on using SlackBuilds to build a package, see here. Alternatively, you could just download the 8.6 version and run the binary installer. There is an option that can make a Slackware .tgz package, but since I have no experience with the ATI driver, I don't know what that option is. A quick search suggests you can use the following:
Code:
# ./atidrivername --buildpkg Slackware/All
(be sure to replace atidrivername with the name of the actual binary installer).
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AMD's ATI drivers come as an installer (the latest version I have is ati-driver-installer-8-5-x86.x86_64.run). You must have the kernel source installed then, as root, just
AMD's ATI drivers come as an installer (the latest version I have is ati-driver-installer-8-5-x86.x86_64.run). You must have the kernel source installed then, as root, just
Thank you tronayne. I think it worked but not 100%, because when I boot up my computer the two penguins'color are disturbed and when i try to play a movie with mplayer through the shell(init 2,3) the colors are so bad. But in graphical mode it works fine. So what would you think its the issue.........?????
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I might wonder what you see when you run fgl_glxgears? The gears are red, green and blue; if they're not, there's something seriously wrong with your display or connections. You should get something on the order of these if you let the utility run for a while (this is my hardware, your mileage may vary):
Code:
fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
1287 frames in 5.0 seconds = 257.400 FPS
1523 frames in 5.0 seconds = 304.600 FPS
1522 frames in 5.0 seconds = 304.400 FPS
1526 frames in 5.0 seconds = 305.200 FPS
1516 frames in 5.0 seconds = 303.200 FPS
1519 frames in 5.0 seconds = 303.800 FPS
Too, how does Google Earth look? When it starts, the globe should zoom smoothly and those are images, they should display clean and with proper colors.
Did you run the aticonfig --initial utility and reboot after the installer finished (and did you fiddle around at all with xorg.conf after running aticonfig or leave it alone)?
Why MPlayer wouldn't work properly I cannot imagine; I've been using the ATI drivers for a few years now and using MPlayer with no problems whatsoever. MPlayer doesn't do anything exotic to display frames (although you might want to try a couple of different video output drivers -- run mplayer -vo help for a list, try a few alternatives and see what happens I use vo=gl2, works for me).
I might wonder what you see when you run fgl_glxgears? The gears are red, green and blue; if they're not, there's something seriously wrong with your display or connections. You should get something on the order of these if you let the utility run for a while (this is my hardware, your mileage may vary):
Code:
fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
1287 frames in 5.0 seconds = 257.400 FPS
1523 frames in 5.0 seconds = 304.600 FPS
1522 frames in 5.0 seconds = 304.400 FPS
1526 frames in 5.0 seconds = 305.200 FPS
1516 frames in 5.0 seconds = 303.200 FPS
1519 frames in 5.0 seconds = 303.800 FPS
Too, how does Google Earth look? When it starts, the globe should zoom smoothly and those are images, they should display clean and with proper colors.
Did you run the aticonfig --initial utility and reboot after the installer finished (and did you fiddle around at all with xorg.conf after running aticonfig or leave it alone)?
Why MPlayer wouldn't work properly I cannot imagine; I've been using the ATI drivers for a few years now and using MPlayer with no problems whatsoever. MPlayer doesn't do anything exotic to display frames (although you might want to try a couple of different video output drivers -- run mplayer -vo help for a list, try a few alternatives and see what happens I use vo=gl2, works for me).
Hope some of this helps.
When I run fgl_glxgears it works, i get the colors but the gears seem to be breaking up, not a very smooth gears.
Google Earth works but it takes a long time to open and then like the gears the globe's image is broken up, and its very very slow...
i tried to but i decided to leave it alone, because i wasn't sure (Pardon my ignorance, I'm new dealing with linux!!)
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Hi.
Digging around a little, I'm wondering... your lspci -vv output above indicates that you have a 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]). Did you select the Mobility Radeon drivers? Although there is no menu choice for the [Mobility] Radeon X1200, it appears to be supported in (at least) the X1300 release notes. If you did not install the Mobility Radeon drivers, it might be a good idea to try those.
If that's the case and you do decide to try the Mobility Radeon drivers, you do want to remove the installed drivers completely before installing an update or a replacement, log in as root and run
Code:
/usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
which removes everything and restores your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (it was copied to a back up during installation). Reboot after this.
You might want to, after you remove the ATI drivers, run
Code:
xorgsetup
to automagically configure X (xorgsetup queries your hardware and generates an appropriate xorg.conf file for you). Don't use xorgsetup with the ATI drivers installed.
You may want to add the following at the end of /etc/X11/xorg.conf in any event (with or without the ATI drivers)
Code:
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
I forgot about doing this and when I updated the drivers to version 8.6 non-root users could not execute graphic utilities (duh).
Google Earth does take forever plus a week to start up in the latest version (there is a fix, but it's kind of a kludge). Once it's going, though, it does run smoothly.
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