[nflug] Ati Googleearth

[anthonyriga]

Well I tried everything even got 3d to work see below
but Google Earth still hangs at splash screen. Im
stumpted not sure if this is Google issue or ATI. I
just wish these companys would just wake up and start
doing things right. Now that Dell and Lenovo and other
companys are preloading Linux hopfully hardware
vendors take develping drivers more seriously for
Linux. What do you tell people when they want to run
Linux but have to speand endless hours to get Google
Earth to try to work and it dosent. 


mike at mike-desktop:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6747 (8.40.4)





--- Sam Stern <samstern at samstern.net> wrote:

> Hi Anthony,
> 
> I had a simmiler problem and here is how I solved
> it:



> 
> 1) lsmod | egrep "agp|fb|vesa" if you see intel_agp
> or other agp or frame
> buffer device continue
> 2) logout of X then init 3
> 3) rmmod $modules_from_step1
> 4) add modules from step one to
> /etc/modconf.d/blacklist
> 5) depmod -a
> 6) cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel | egrep "agp|fb|vesa"
> if positive remove the
> entry and give a mkinitrd
> 7) now reboot (this is one of those few times you
> must reboot in linux).
> 
> et volia! Most things broken will work BUT a few new
> items will become
> broken
> 
> What this fixed for me:
> 
> 1) Switiching between X and a text console resulted
> in black screen
> 2) Movies lagged horribly
> 3) poor opengl performance when using overlays
> 
> What this broke:
> 
> 1) When I task my system above 50% cpu, system shuts
> down due to a thermal
> event. chkconfig lmsensors and run the above process
> for the module
> "thermal" fixed this. 40C cpus and a 35C motherboard
> and hard drives is not
> a thermal event!!
> 2) cedega can no longer run the game, eve. This made
> me revert to the old
> settings!
> 
> good luck! Those ATI drivers suck!!
> 
> Sam S.
> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org
> [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf
> >Of anthonyriga
> >Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:25 PM
> >To: nflug at nflug.org
> >Subject: Re: [nflug] Ati Googleearth
> >
> >Pete
> >I also tried to use the Envy program that installs
> the
> >drivers. But no go so far no solution. ATI needs to
> >fix this crap. If I had another vid card nvidia i
> >would put it in. AMD (ATI) just plain sucks.
> >--- anthonyriga <torrodimerda at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Ati drivers from the AMD site
> >> --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Which driver are you using, ati or aiglx?
> >> >
> >> > anthonyriga wrote:
> >> > > Last year I setup Ubuntu for my stepfather
> with
> >> > > GoogleEarth and I remember it took me alot of
> >> time
> >> > > getting 3d enabled so Google Earth didnt hang
> on
> >> > the
> >> > > splash screen. He did upgrade to 7.04 that
> went
> >> > fine
> >> > > but blew away the Ati stuff for google earth
> to
> >> > work.
> >> > > The Ati card is integrated on the mobo radeon
> >> > xpress
> >> > > 200. I have downloaded the latest drivers
> from
> >> AMD
> >> > > site but still cant seem to get it to work it
> >> just
> >> > > hangs on the splash screen when it starts.
> >> > > Unfortuntatly when I set it up the first time
> I
> >> > think
> >> > > it was just luck that I got it to work. Any
> >> > > suggestions to setting this up or fixing the
> >> > problem.
> >> > > I see alot of ati issues but no solutions! I
> use
> >> > > Nvidia at home but I am here in Tampa trying
> to
> >> > get
> >> > > his to work while im here. Suggestions?
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
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