[nflug] Ati Googleearth
Cyber Source
peter at thecybersource.com
Sun Aug 19 07:21:03 EDT 2007
Try whacking your ~/.googleearth folder. Also, try whacking all in /tmp
(then reboot), there may be some strange things hanging around in there.
Also, let's see your lspci -vvvv (crop out the vga section)
anthonyriga wrote:
> 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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