Google Earth Linux tries to start then errors out
Google Earth Linux tries to start then errors out
After the dialog box says it is installed and I click the Start button, the Google Earth welcome page, or at least a part of it, briefly flashes once or twice and then an Error message comes up.
The same thing happens when I try starting using the console even tho I don't know what I am doing with a console. I couldn't figure out the right thing to do in the MUT
The message says they are sorry but a bug caused it to crash which should not happen normally. It is the same message others have reported. The help suggested seems to involve the video card and/or memory. I don't think this is my problem because I am running Windoze also (forced to because of things like this) and installed and can run GoogleEarth o.k. in Windoze.
Running Puppy 3.01CD-AMD3800-1GBshared-512MB Pup save 400MB free.
I am a slow forever newbie and would appreciate the most basic simple advice possible.
Thanks - retry3
The same thing happens when I try starting using the console even tho I don't know what I am doing with a console. I couldn't figure out the right thing to do in the MUT
The message says they are sorry but a bug caused it to crash which should not happen normally. It is the same message others have reported. The help suggested seems to involve the video card and/or memory. I don't think this is my problem because I am running Windoze also (forced to because of things like this) and installed and can run GoogleEarth o.k. in Windoze.
Running Puppy 3.01CD-AMD3800-1GBshared-512MB Pup save 400MB free.
I am a slow forever newbie and would appreciate the most basic simple advice possible.
Thanks - retry3
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Did you install OpenGL and drivers for you graphics card? Puppy doesn't have OpenGL by default, so most 3d things won't work until you install it (there's a package called xorg_OPENGL in the PETget package manager). You might also want the xorg_DRI_MODULES package, and you may need to add lines to load dri and glx in the "Module" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf (there will be other entries in that section, so just use one as a template).
Then you'll need to restart X. Speaking of X, for 3d programs you'll probably want to use Xorg rather than Xvesa. I don't know if Xvesa can handle OpenGL, but it definitely doesn't let you take advantage of your graphics card.
This is just a brief overview. More detail can be found by searching the forum.
Then you'll need to restart X. Speaking of X, for 3d programs you'll probably want to use Xorg rather than Xvesa. I don't know if Xvesa can handle OpenGL, but it definitely doesn't let you take advantage of your graphics card.
This is just a brief overview. More detail can be found by searching the forum.
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Thanks Pizzagood -
Yes, I am running Xorg and have read page after page of search results. Your welcome reply sort of fits in with the other things I've read and I am glad to see you recommend a Pet pkg; I can handle that. You have made things a little clearer to me so I will thrash around with the rest of your suggestions.
Much appreciated - retry3
Yes, I am running Xorg and have read page after page of search results. Your welcome reply sort of fits in with the other things I've read and I am glad to see you recommend a Pet pkg; I can handle that. You have made things a little clearer to me so I will thrash around with the rest of your suggestions.
Much appreciated - retry3
goolge earth alternative
Just my two cents worth : I like using flashearth.com in puppy it does similar things.
Followed PG's advice and MU's suggestions in another thread and dowloaded and installed these packages from PETget:
xorg_OPENGL-7.2
xorg_DRI_MODULES-7.2
sdl-1.2.11: Simple Direct Media Layer Library
GooglEarth-bigfont
The sdl pkg said I was missing dependencies of libvga.so.1 in five folders. I have no idea of where to get or how to install these.
The xorg.conf file in etc/X11 already had glx in Modules so I added dri and also added it to the xorg.conf0 and xorg.conf.NVIDA files.
Upon starting Googleearth again I did not get the Error message but the Welcome page appeared for about 6 secs once and only a half sec on further tries then the screen goes black and I get the Exiting X screen. Tried rebooting, cold boot and the XorgWizard--no go.
Is there a Puppy/Muppy or other distro(Ubuntu?) that will for sure run GE? I am going to take a break from this and do something useful, like fix that leaky toilet.
To ndujoe1; thanks for your 2 cnts.
Thanks - retry3
xorg_OPENGL-7.2
xorg_DRI_MODULES-7.2
sdl-1.2.11: Simple Direct Media Layer Library
GooglEarth-bigfont
The sdl pkg said I was missing dependencies of libvga.so.1 in five folders. I have no idea of where to get or how to install these.
The xorg.conf file in etc/X11 already had glx in Modules so I added dri and also added it to the xorg.conf0 and xorg.conf.NVIDA files.
Upon starting Googleearth again I did not get the Error message but the Welcome page appeared for about 6 secs once and only a half sec on further tries then the screen goes black and I get the Exiting X screen. Tried rebooting, cold boot and the XorgWizard--no go.
Is there a Puppy/Muppy or other distro(Ubuntu?) that will for sure run GE? I am going to take a break from this and do something useful, like fix that leaky toilet.
To ndujoe1; thanks for your 2 cnts.
Thanks - retry3
I had installed it some days ago in Muppy 008.1.
It was a test savefile, but if I remember, it went very smooth.
I can look it up again, I also modified the theme of google-earth so that it looks nicer.
If you try and it does not run immedeatly, I easily could help by booting with that testfile.
Mark
It was a test savefile, but if I remember, it went very smooth.
I can look it up again, I also modified the theme of google-earth so that it looks nicer.
If you try and it does not run immedeatly, I easily could help by booting with that testfile.
Mark
If it's this file:
http://dl.google.com/earth/client/curre ... hLinux.bin
I think you need to give it executable permissions, then run it to install googleEarth:
http://dl.google.com/earth/client/curre ... hLinux.bin
I think you need to give it executable permissions, then run it to install googleEarth:
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chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Last edited by muggins on Sat 26 Jan 2008, 01:37, edited 1 time in total.
ok,in Rox-filer,navigate to the folder where you downloaded it.
Right-click somewhere in that window, choose:
window - terminal here
This opens a console, with the correct path.
Now type:
bash G[tab]
[tab] stands for the tabulator-key.
This will expand the "G" to the full filename.
This simply saves you some typing.
You also could type:
bash GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Then press enter.
Now this installer will extract the installation-files, then a grafical setup should start.
This is pretty self-explaining, but please ask again, if things remain unclear.
When the installation is done, but google-earth is very slow, we might have to activate OpenGL, too.
Mark
Right-click somewhere in that window, choose:
window - terminal here
This opens a console, with the correct path.
Now type:
bash G[tab]
[tab] stands for the tabulator-key.
This will expand the "G" to the full filename.
This simply saves you some typing.
You also could type:
bash GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Then press enter.
Now this installer will extract the installation-files, then a grafical setup should start.
This is pretty self-explaining, but please ask again, if things remain unclear.
When the installation is done, but google-earth is very slow, we might have to activate OpenGL, too.
Mark