Google Earth for Linux

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 11:06 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 June 2006 10:52, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:04 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:59:39PM -0700, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > > > Kurt Wall wrote:
> > > > > > http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Schweet!
> > > > >
> > > > > Good on google for making a linux version. Runs fantastic on my old
> > > > > athlon with older nvidia card.
> > > >
> > > > Runs just fine on my Athlon64 with NVIDIA GeForce Mumble and SUSE 10.1.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any screen redraw issues when using Xgl and a current nvidia
> > > driver on SUSE 10.1?  I only see this in googleearth. Some widgets are
> > > not kept current. Moving the mouse over then can get them redrawn. But
> > > not always.
> >
> > Which GPU are you using?  Does this only happen with Xgl?

I will check when I get home. It is whatever Sony are putting in the
current cheaper VAIO laptops.  Something like an nvidia 6400.

> It's happening with me on an old Matrox card.....   I originally thought it 
> might not show the 'zoom bar'  because it was still streaming the view.  And 
> that might be the case.   But I don't think it is video card specific......

The Linux version is a beta. I guess I need to see how this gets
reported back to Google.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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