On Saturday 17 February 2007 20:29, Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Saturday 17 February 2007 17:26, Bob S wrote:

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Hello SuSE people

Downloaded Google Earth this afternoon. Seems to be a script of some kind. What do I need to do to run it.

Say the downloaded installer file is called "GoogleEarthLinux.bin". To launch the installer you'd issue this command:

% sh GoogleEarthInstaller.bin

I don't recall any more, but you may have to answer some questions. You'll probably at least have to affirm your acceptance of the license under which that software is distributed.

If you do this as your usual non-root user, then the files installed will be owned by you, which is OK. If for some reason you want the files to be owned by some other user, "su" to that user first.

Thanks Joe & Randall, Worked great.Wouldn't know how to make those teeny fonts in the menus larger, would you? Bob S. Ummmm....Thanks? Patrick ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Op zondag 18 februari 2007 05:45, schreef Randall R Schulz:

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Worked great.Wouldn't know how to make those teeny fonts in the menus larger, would you?

I believe it's a GTK application, so its GUI fonts (menu and such) can probably be configured via the Gnome Control Center.

Wrong, see: http://www.trolltech.com/customers/allcustomers/google/ http://www.trolltech.com/pdf/Introducing_Qt_1006.pdf (page 31) => It's a QT app. -- Richard Bos We are borrowing the world of our children, It is not inherited from our parents. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 18 February 2007 00:49, Richard Bos wrote:

Op zondag 18 februari 2007 05:45, schreef Randall R Schulz:

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Worked great.Wouldn't know how to make those teeny fonts in the menus larger, would you?

I believe it's a GTK application, so its GUI fonts (menu and such) can probably be configured via the Gnome Control Center.

Wrong, see: http://www.trolltech.com/customers/allcustomers/google/ http://www.trolltech.com/pdf/Introducing_Qt_1006.pdf (page 31)

=> It's a QT app.

In that case it should respond to the KDE control center settings, right?

-- Richard Bos

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On Sunday 18 February 2007 07:44, Richard Bos wrote:

Op zondag 18 februari 2007 16:35, schreef Randall R Schulz:

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=> It's a QT app.

In that case it should respond to the KDE control center settings, right?

Hmm, difficult to say. I would say it is independent of kde. KDE is built on top of QT and as such kde would pick up changes that are made to QT, but not the other way around. There is a ~/.qt directory, perhaps you're looking for that?

I'm not looking for anything. Google Earth works fine for me. The OP is dissatisfied with the appearance of fonts in their Google Earth. It has no built-in font controls, so it must be getting its font settings from something external to it. Isn't that how GTK-based applications work? Don't they get their various GUI settings from the Gnome Control Center.

-- Richard Bos

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To join some noise to the OT :) I just installed Google Earth on my 10.0 x86_64. After I start it, it displays the splash screen and hangs there forever, getting 95% CPU. Any ideas what may be wrong? -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 2/18/07, Masaru Nomiya wrote:

Hello,

In the Message;

Subject : Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT Message-ID : Date & Time: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:18:31 -0600

[Sunny] == Sunny has written:

Sunny> I just installed Google Earth on my 10.0 x86_64. After I start it, it Sunny> displays the splash screen and hangs there forever, getting 95% CPU. Sunny> Any ideas what may be wrong?

If you are using ATI's video card, its driver causes such a phenomenon.

Yes, it is ATI. Any workaround? -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 18 February 2007, J Sloan wrote:

Sunny wrote:

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On 2/18/07, Masaru Nomiya wrote:

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Hello,

In the Message;

Subject : Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT Message-ID : Date & Time: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:18:31 -0600

[Sunny] == Sunny has written:

Sunny> I just installed Google Earth on my 10.0 x86_64. After I start it, it Sunny> displays the splash screen and hangs there forever, getting 95% CPU. Sunny> Any ideas what may be wrong?

If you are using ATI's video card, its driver causes such a phenomenon.

Yes, it is ATI. Any workaround?

Toss the ATI card, install an Nvidia card?

Not helpful. Often, not even an option for laptops. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen

On Sunday 18 February 2007, Sunny wrote:

To join some noise to the OT :)

I just installed Google Earth on my 10.0 x86_64. After I start it, it displays the splash screen and hangs there forever, getting 95% CPU. Any ideas what may be wrong?

-- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

Sunny: (and other long suffering ATI card users....) I found this info by lots of digging through the google earth groups. Apparently the ATI drivers after version 8.27 broke some linkage in libGL.so.1 which is part of the package shipped from ATI. The workaround is to get an old version of that module and place it directly in your google-earth directory. Do not replace the existing file everywhere, just ADD it to your google earth directory (its not normally there). Here is the link to the original post, and it in turn contains a link to the actual file you need to download, rename, and save as specified. http://groups.google.com/group/earth-linux/msg/648d2419178a7f79 This worked for me on a Dell machine with an X1400 ATI card. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen

On Monday 19 February 2007, Sunny wrote:

Hey John, thanks very much for the info. It helped, i.e. I have working program now. It just complains that it runs in software emulation OpenGL mode, now hw one. Is this how it supposed to be?

Don't know how to deal with that, mine does not do that. There is a setting in the options for that, perhaps it somehow got turned on. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 18 February 2007 12:52, Rajko M. wrote:

On Saturday 17 February 2007 21:06, Bob S wrote: ...

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Wouldn't know how to make those teeny fonts in the menus larger, would you?

In your home directory: ~/.googleearth/Registry/google/googleearthplus/User/render the file that contains font size is: guifontsize

Ah ! Rajko !!!!!!! You are The Man !!!!! Worked beautifully. I was a little worried about usability for me as I am sight impaired. Thanks again Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Saturday 17 February 2007 17:26, Bob S wrote:

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Hello SuSE people

Downloaded Google Earth this afternoon. Seems to be a script of some kind. What do I need to do to run it.

Say the downloaded installer file is called "GoogleEarthLinux.bin". To launch the installer you'd issue this command:

% sh GoogleEarthInstaller.bin

I don't recall any more, but you may have to answer some questions. You'll probably at least have to affirm your acceptance of the license under which that software is distributed.

If you do this as your usual non-root user, then the files installed will be owned by you, which is OK. If for some reason you want the files to be owned by some other user, "su" to that user first.

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Bob S.

Randall Schulz I'm running openSUSE 10.2 and downloaded GoogleEarthLinux.bin version 4. Running sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin - as required at the download site - installed GoogleEarthLinux. Running googleearth gave me a startscreen and a crash of KDE. The command sh GoogleEarthInstaller did not work. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Andre den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Robert Lewis wrote:

A. den Oudsten wrote:

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Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Saturday 17 February 2007 17:26, Bob S wrote:

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Hello SuSE people

Downloaded Google Earth this afternoon. Seems to be a script of some kind. What do I need to do to run it.

Say the downloaded installer file is called "GoogleEarthLinux.bin". To launch the installer you'd issue this command:

% sh GoogleEarthInstaller.bin

I don't recall any more, but you may have to answer some questions. You'll probably at least have to affirm your acceptance of the license under which that software is distributed.

If you do this as your usual non-root user, then the files installed will be owned by you, which is OK. If for some reason you want the files to be owned by some other user, "su" to that user first.

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Bob S.

Randall Schulz

I'm running openSUSE 10.2 and downloaded GoogleEarthLinux.bin version 4. Running sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin - as required at the download site - installed GoogleEarthLinux. Running googleearth gave me a startscreen and a crash of KDE. The command sh GoogleEarthInstaller did not work. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Andre den Oudsten

I d/l version 4 last night and installed it. It came up just perfect and very impressive. I am using 10.2 too. I wonder what the difference is between your installation and mine. I am using an NVIDIA card with 3D acceleration.

My card is a GEFORCE-2 MX-200 32MB AGP + TV-OUT and from 2001, so could be a little outdated!! Thanks, Andre den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

J Sloan wrote:

A. den Oudsten wrote:

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My card is a GEFORCE-2 MX-200 32MB AGP + TV-OUT and from 2001, so could be a little outdated!! Thanks,

Card should be OK, but are you using the Nvidia binary driver for hardware accelerated OpenGL, or just the non-accelerated "nv" driver?

Joe I just installed openSUSE 10.2 as it is and I have no idea what kind of driver for that card is installed.

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J Sloan wrote:

A. den Oudsten wrote:

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J Sloan wrote:

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A. den Oudsten wrote:

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My card is a GEFORCE-2 MX-200 32MB AGP + TV-OUT and from 2001, so could be a little outdated!! Thanks,

Card should be OK, but are you using the Nvidia binary driver for hardware accelerated OpenGL, or just the non-accelerated "nv" driver?

Joe

I just installed openSUSE 10.2 as it is and I have no idea what kind of driver for that card is installed.

Unlike earlier editions of SuSE Linux, where installing the accelerated nvidia drivers was done with just a mouse click in online update, you now have to do a bit of tweaking to get them installed, using one of 2 methods.

Experienced users often just download the latest linux video drivers from nvidia.com and install by hand according to the directions there, but then the nvidia driver has to be rebuilt if the kernel is ever upgraded.

The other way involves adding the nvidia driver repo to your software sources - I think there are some howtos on that floating around.

In either case, the nvidia driver makes a dramatic difference in the video performance.

Joe

Nvidia has a generic update for my card in Linux and is already in openSUSE 10.2 Andre -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

J Sloan wrote:

A. den Oudsten wrote:

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Nvidia has a generic update for my card in Linux and is already in openSUSE 10.2

So, what is the output of "glxgears"?

Joe

Nice running blue red and green gears!! Andre -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

A. den Oudsten wrote:

J Sloan wrote:

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A. den Oudsten wrote:

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Nvidia has a generic update for my card in Linux and is already in openSUSE 10.2

So, what is the output of "glxgears"?

Joe

Nice running blue red and green gears!!

Well, I meant the numerical output (fps)... Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org