Google Earth for Linux

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 09:52 -0500, 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?

SUSE 10.1 seems to set up Xgl by default. Enabling all the eye candy is
by hand. I confess. I really like the thing of moving the mouse to the
top right corner and getting the windows tiled for selection.

This is what I have. 

'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86' (1.0-8762)

(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce Go 6400 at PCI:1:0:0
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.44.02.30.07
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce Go 6400 at
PCI:1:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0):     NVIDIA Default Flat Panel (DFP-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA Default Flat Panel (DFP-0): 310.0 MHz maximum
pixel
(--) NVIDIA(0):     clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA Default Flat Panel (DFP-0): Internal Single Link
LVDS
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0