Aaron Kulkis wrote:

Henk te Sligte wrote:

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2008/1/28, Aaron Kulkis :

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Henk te Sligte wrote:

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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-...

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