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[Henk te Sligte <htesligte@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Henk te Sligte wrote:
> > 2008/1/28, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > Henk te Sligte wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am using OpenSuse for about a year now, but I never got Google Earth
> > > > working. Today, I decided to give it another try. I removed everything
> > > > related to Google Earth, logged in as root, and installed Google 
> > > > Earth.
> > > > Installation works fine, no problems at all. But when I tried to 
> > > > run it,
> > > > X server crashed. Also when I logged in as user, it crashes. I 
> > > > couldn't
> > > > get anything useful from /var/log/messages, so I tried to find 
> > > > something
> > > > useful from the internet. The only possible solution I found was at
> > > > linuxquestions.org:
> > > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/google-earth-crashes-x-598569/ 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > TaylorVcl recommends running the following: wget
> > > > http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 -O libGL.so.1 at the
> > > > directory /opt/googlearth/. This is where Google Earth is 
> > > > installed, so
> > > > everything should be fine. And yes, X server doesn't crash anymore 
> > > > when
> > > > I try to run googlearth. But I get the  message located at the 
> > > > bottom of
> > > > this mail. The log file is attached to this mail. I hope someone 
> > > > has any
> > > > idea to fix this, because I really love this application.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much in advance!
> > > Did you restart google earth so that the bug report would
> > > be sent to Google?
> > >
> > > And which version of Google Earth are you using?
> > >
> > >
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> > Yes, I restarted it quite often, so Google must have a lot reports 
> > from me.
> > The version I use is the newest, downloaded yesterday, version 4.2 Beta.
> >
> > Henk te Sligte
>
> Weird.
>
> are you running it from the command line?
>
> If you do this from a command line
>
> $ nohup googleearth &
>
> and then after a crash, from the same directory:
>
> $ more nohup.out
>
>
> what do you see?
I just removed Google Earth and reinstalled it, and when I run 'nohup 
googleearth &', X crashes, and nohup.out is empty. When I do the 
libGL-trick, as I described in my first message, nohup.out contains the 
exact same message as I attached in the first mail.

I think it has something to do with my graphics card, but I'm not really 
sure. My system is a HP Compaq nc6220 notebook, with an Intel 915M 
chipset. Although, thats what lspci tells me:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 
915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
I have absolutely no idea if it is some driver problem, I just installed 
a newer kernel (2.6.22.16-SL103_BRANCH_20080123142852-default), but 
nothing changes.

Thanks in advance,
Henk te Sligte
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