Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE? I've installed it on my SuSE 10.1 box but the display is a total mess. According the google download page it has been confirmed to run on SuSE 10.1 but I do wonder how. (I've posted a question on the Google Earth forum but the activity there seems to be very low.) My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Quadro NVS 285. /Lennart -- !++ ! Lennart Börjeson ! Partner, Developer ! Cinnober Financial Technology AB ! Industrigatan 2A ! S-112 46 STOCKHOLM ! Sverige/Sweden/Schweden/Suède ! mailto:Lennart.Borjeson@cinnober.com ! phone:+46-8-50304717 ! gsm:+46-70-3394717 ! fax:+46-8-50304701 ! http://www.cinnober.com !--
On my system (SuSE 10.1), it works. I have a Laptot (Centrino) with an ATI radeon 9700. Francesco Teodori Lennart Börjeson wrote:
Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE? I've installed it on my SuSE 10.1 box but the display is a total mess. According the google download page it has been confirmed to run on SuSE 10.1 but I do wonder how.
(I've posted a question on the Google Earth forum but the activity there seems to be very low.)
My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Quadro NVS 285.
/Lennart
On Monday 11 September 2006 10:34, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE?
The Linux version is still in beta however it works fine for me, it does crash now and again but I've been quite impressed with it, no problems with the install or setup. Running on 10.1 with Nvidia 5600 GFX card. I know it doesn't fix your problem but it did answer your question. :P M.
On Monday 11 September 2006 01:34, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE? I've installed it on my SuSE 10.1 box but the display is a total mess. According the google download page it has been confirmed to run on SuSE 10.1 but I do wonder how.
(I've posted a question on the Google Earth forum but the activity there seems to be very low.)
My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Quadro NVS 285.
Works for me on 9.3. Haven't tried on 10.x yet. Oh yeah, also works on Kubuntu. Radeon 7900 (or some such). My display is initially a mess too. I believe this is because the chipset does not clear itself properly before GE starts using it. I wait till the first display is completed its zoom in, then resize the window and everything is perfect from then on out. I've also seen this behavior with tux racer. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:34 +0200, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE? I've installed it on my SuSE 10.1 box but the display is a total mess. According the google download page it has been confirmed to run on SuSE 10.1 but I do wonder how.
(I've posted a question on the Google Earth forum but the activity there seems to be very low.)
My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Quadro NVS 285.
/Lennart
Try resizing till it looks ok, I have to make mine 640x600 for it to work!? Seems that the window only works at a certain widths and heights - prob a bug with certain video-cards, my nVidia 6600 at home works fine. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
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Lennart> My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Lennart> Quadro NVS 285. It's only for i386 architecture. That is. with chroot, it always crash. Regards. --- Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiyac360 @ mg.point.ne.jp "Bill! You married with Computers. Not with Me!" "No..., with money."
On Monday 11 September 2006 04:34, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE? I've installed it on my SuSE 10.1 box but the display is a total mess. According the google download page it has been confirmed to run on SuSE 10.1 but I do wonder how.
Works for me (NVidia GeForce 4 MX 4000, w/NVidia driver). -- Glenn Holmer (Q-Link: ShadowM) http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/c64.html
On Monday 11 September 2006 11:34, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE? I've installed it on my SuSE 10.1 box but the display is a total mess. According the google download page it has been confirmed to run on SuSE 10.1 but I do wonder how.
i installed it yesterday under Suse 10.1 and it complained that it would run slowly because of software-level opengl support. So i re-enabled my nvidia accellerated xorg.conf file (which i had disabled because i was spending too much time playing games ;), and now GE just crashes at every start. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:34:36 +0200 Lennart Börjeson <Lennart.Borjeson@cinnober.com> wrote:
Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE? I've installed it on my SuSE 10.1 box but the display is a total mess. According the google download page it has been confirmed to run on SuSE 10.1 but I do wonder how.
(I've posted a question on the Google Earth forum but the activity there seems to be very low.)
My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Quadro NVS 285.
/Lennart
Yep, just downloaded it and ran it on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303 laptop. This beta version is much more responsive and images are more crisp than on an earlier beta I tried. So I can confirm it runs on SuSE 10.1. Pete -- Peter N. Spotts | Science reporter The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02115 USA Office: 617-450-2449 | Office-in-home: 508-520-3139 Email: pspotts@alum.mit.edu | Amateur radio call: KC1JB www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net
Am Montag, 11. September 2006 11:34 schrieb Lennart Börjeson:
Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE? I've installed it on my SuSE 10.1 box but the display is a total mess. According the google download page it has been confirmed to run on SuSE 10.1 but I do wonder how.
(I've posted a question on the Google Earth forum but the activity there seems to be very low.)
My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Quadro NVS 285.
/Lennart -- Version 4.0.1693 (installed July 13th) runs here on Suse 10.0 with Kernel 2.6.13.11 without any problems, although I am *very* disappointed by the quality and actuality of the pictures and don't understand the hype that is (or was) made about it. Never looked at it again, except now to check if it still works...
Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch
On Monday 11 September 2006 04:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:
although I am *very* disappointed by the quality and actuality of the pictures and don't understand the hype that is (or was) made about it. Never looked at it again, except now to check if it still works...
Quality varies dramatically depending on the pictures available. Look at down town Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, or London. Don't expect that resolution every where. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 04:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:
although I am *very* disappointed by the quality and actuality of the pictures and don't understand the hype that is (or was) made about it. Never looked at it again, except now to check if it still works...
Quality varies dramatically depending on the pictures available. Look at down town Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, or London. Don't expect that resolution every where.
I have to agree with Daniel - google earth is pretty piss poor. I've also ever only used it once, then ditched it. /Per Jessen, Zürich
On Mon, September 11, 2006 11:13 am, Per Jessen wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 04:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:
although I am *very* disappointed by the quality and actuality of the pictures and don't understand the hype that is (or was) made about it. Never looked at it again, except now
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I have to agree with Daniel - google earth is pretty piss poor. I've also ever only used it once, then ditched it.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but I'd like to put a good word in for the program. Google bought Keyhole Corp, a well-regarded name in GIS mapping, about the same time it bought Picasa. Though more an amusement on ths surface, the beauty of the application comes into play when you load your own GIS data into the system and start cross-populating it with such information as precint boundries for elections, assessor parcel information for property tax valuations, ownership information for demographics and so on. It is there where you see the application really shine. The nice thing about Google Earth is the fact that it integrates well with Arc/GIS and other ERSI software apps using KML (Keyhole Markup Langugage), which is very similar to HTML/XML in style. Here's an example of me taking phone data from a GPS-enabled Nextel phone, overlaying into our Google Earth Server and coming up with a webpage. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/kai_gps_home_zoom.jpg http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/kai_gps_home.jpg What you are seeing are the green points showing the location of the GPS phone integrated into the Keyhole satelite image of my house. The phone was actually sitting on a desk during the sampling, but shows some variation in location due to the wobble of satellites in orbit taking the readings. This is just a small example of what can be done - and done easily - with Google Earth. I was very impressed with Google that they ported it over to Linux, and use it often on my laptops to show what can be done in Linux on SUSE. Fortuntely for us, the Keyhole app was written with the superior Qt toolkit, so it is cross-platform and looks nice. /soapbox -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
Am Montag, 11. September 2006 19:53 schrieb John Andersen:
On Monday 11 September 2006 04:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:
although I am *very* disappointed by the quality and actuality of the pictures and don't understand the hype that is (or was) made about it. Never looked at it again, except now to check if it still works...
Quality varies dramatically depending on the pictures available. Look at down town Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, or London. Don't expect that resolution every where.
Yes, you are right of course. Even my little tiny hometown is quite clear, while the pictures of most other places I was looking for are really useless - just a greenish mess (where there it is green in summer). If just wonder about the great fuss about google earth, while sites like http://map.search.ch/ have much better photo material (except in larger cities) - without the need of downloading any software, with the possibility to find any address and without the big noise of google earth. And I guess this site is just one example... It's just that when google came up with its program I expected something really great, you know. I was frustrated it wouldn't work on Linux first, but now that it does I think: who cares!.. :-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch
On Mon, September 11, 2006 11:19 am, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am Montag, 11. September 2006 19:53 schrieb John Andersen:
On Monday 11 September 2006 04:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:
although I am *very* disappointed by the quality and actuality of the pictures and don't understand the hype that is (or was) made about it. Never looked at it again, except now to check if it still works...
Quality varies dramatically depending on the pictures available. Look at down town Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, or London. Don't expect that resolution every where.
Yes, you are right of course. Even my little tiny hometown is quite clear, while the pictures of most other places I was looking for are really useless - just a greenish mess (where there it is green in summer).
If just wonder about the great fuss about google earth, while sites like http://map.search.ch/ have much better photo material (except in larger cities) - without the need of downloading any software, with the possibility to find any address and without the big noise of google earth. And I guess this site is just one example...
Well, you could do the same with Google Maps. http://maps.google.com In all honesty, that's what I use for the most part. However, just to be nitpicky, I decided to compare your search site vs. Google Earth for the Migros store I worked at in the early '90s, which is located over near Schaffhausen. Here's your site. You can see the store with the yellow circle. It is at full zoom. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/maps_search_thayngen.jpg Here's google earth, looking at the same building, only with a bit of a 3-d effect induced by the application. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/google_earth_migros.jpg In both instances, the images are 65% quality JPEGs, so you may notice some degridation. I did that only to keep the bandwith issues down. I'd say it is pretty clear that Google Earth has the better picture. Of course, the overriding issue is that both options are available to those of us using Linux. :) -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
On Monday 11 September 2006 10:19, Daniel Bauer wrote:
t's just that when google came up with its program I expected something really great, you know. I was frustrated it wouldn't work on Linux first, but now that it does I think: who cares!.. :-)
Really? You can fly down the grand canyon with http://map.search.ch/ ? If you have used Google Earth and never tilted your eye view away from straight down you are missing a great deal of its capability. If all you use it for is finding addresses, you are correct, any simple browser map is easier. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Sep 11, 06 11:34:36 +0200, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE? I've installed it on my SuSE 10.1 box but the display is a total mess. According the google download page it has been confirmed to run on SuSE 10.1 but I do wonder how.
(I've posted a question on the Google Earth forum but the activity there seems to be very low.)
My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Quadro NVS 285.
Either a driver bug or a missinstalled NVidia driver. Are you running Xgl? How did you install the NVidia driver? Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de
måndag 11 september 2006 15:27 skrev Matthias Hopf:
On Sep 11, 06 11:34:36 +0200, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Quadro NVS 285.
Either a driver bug or a missinstalled NVidia driver. Are you running Xgl?
I have not installed xgl.
How did you install the NVidia driver?
I used the preferred method according to http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#4; by adding nVidia's repository to YaST and installing "nvidia-gfx-kmp-smp" and "x11-video-nvidia". My currently installed versions are 1.0.8762_2.6.16.21_0.8-1 and 1.0.8762-1 respectively. -- !++ ! Lennart Börjeson ! Partner, Developer ! Cinnober Financial Technology AB ! Industrigatan 2A ! S-112 46 STOCKHOLM ! Sverige/Sweden/Schweden/Suède ! mailto:Lennart.Borjeson@cinnober.com ! phone:+46-8-50304717 ! gsm:+46-70-3394717 ! fax:+46-8-50304701 ! http://www.cinnober.com !--
On Sep 11, 06 16:16:04 +0200, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
måndag 11 september 2006 15:27 skrev Matthias Hopf:
On Sep 11, 06 11:34:36 +0200, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
My hardware is a Dell Precision 490 (2 Dual Core Xeons) + nVidia Quadro NVS 285.
Either a driver bug or a missinstalled NVidia driver. Are you running Xgl?
I have not installed xgl.
How did you install the NVidia driver?
I used the preferred method according to http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#4; by adding nVidia's repository to YaST and installing "nvidia-gfx-kmp-smp" and "x11-video-nvidia". My currently installed versions are 1.0.8762_2.6.16.21_0.8-1 and 1.0.8762-1 respectively.
Very well. Seems to be ok. In that case please create a bug report, against the 3rd Party X.org component. Thanks Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de
On Mon, September 11, 2006 2:34 am, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
Has anyone here managed to run the recently released Google Earth on SuSE? I've installed it on my SuSE 10.1 box but the display is a total mess. According the google download page it has been confirmed to run on SuSE 10.1 but I do wonder how.
Dell Inspiron 600m laptop, I installed it just now. It gave me a message that I don't have the Bitstream Vera Sans font installed. Running it, however, was just fine. As others have mentioned the display comes up funky at first but maximizing the screen gets rid of the clutter. I find this happens, too, on my Wintendo boxen as well. I haven't used Keyhole in a year, so I can't speak to that applicaiton on Windows. -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
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Daniel Bauer -
Francesco Teodori -
Glenn Holmer -
Hans van der Merwe -
John Andersen -
Lennart Börjeson -
Masaru Nomiya -
Matthew Stringer -
Matthias Hopf -
Per Jessen -
PerfectReign -
Peter N. Spotts -
stephan beal