Google Earth for Linux

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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

I'm pretty sure that SuSE-10.1 does not setup Xgl by default.  At least it
hasn't on any of the installations I've done.

> 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

Hrmm.  Can you capture this in a screenshot?

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