Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Curt
On 2011-08-14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > $ cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log | less less /var/log ... > $ cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log | grep -i fail grep -i fail /var/log ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 05:10, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: [...] NOTES: nvidia-glx-ia32 only supports GeForce 6xxx+ series NVidia cards. My Lenovo Thinkpad T61p has a Quadro FX 570M, and Google Earth works with the nvidia-glx-ia32 package installed a

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:35:19 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: Hello Scott, > very latest. If I was of assistance it was, and I regret, inadvertent. > IRC, email, and work, combined with lack of sleep don't make for > useful support :-/ :-) Either way, I'm a happy camper. -- Regards _ /

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: [...] > NOTES: > > nvidia-glx-ia32 only supports GeForce 6xxx+ series NVidia cards. My Lenovo Thinkpad T61p has a Quadro FX 570M, and Google Earth works with the nvidia-glx-ia32 package installed and not without, so I guess it supports card

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 02:43, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/08/11 01:41, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:20:03 +0800 H Xu �wrote: There's three way to install Nvidia:- 1. download and build their drivers, which I recommend only for

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 03:14, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:39:53 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: Hello Scott, Mesa-utils is not needed - they just allow you to test and check your OpenGL settings - and if you don't have the basic mesa packages installed, they'll pull them in. Yes, so underst

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:39:53 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: Hello Scott, > Mesa-utils is not needed - they just allow you to test and check your > OpenGL settings - and if you don't have the basic mesa packages > installed, they'll pull them in. Yes, so understand having re-read your previous p

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 15/08/11 01:41, Brad Rogers wrote: >> >> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:20:03 +0800 >> H Xu  wrote: >> >> Hello H, >> >>> I don't know which package could unblack googleearth, I've installed >>> mesa-utils and using nvidia proprietary drives. I

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 14/08/11 13:22, H Xu wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's >> official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when >> the google-earth starts up, it doesn't disp

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 01:41, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:20:03 +0800 H Xu wrote: Hello H, I don't know which package could unblack googleearth, I've installed mesa-utils and using nvidia proprietary drives. I don't know how to figure out what the package is. Could anyone offer me some hel

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:20:03 +0800 H Xu wrote: Hello H, > I don't know which package could unblack googleearth, I've installed > mesa-utils and using nvidia proprietary drives. I don't know how to > figure out what the package is. Could anyone offer me some help? mesa-utils and/or dependencie

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/08/11 13:22, H Xu wrote: Hello, I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when the google-earth starts up, it doesn't display the earth, but an empty black region. Despite this black region, other

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread H Xu
On 2011/8/14 14:07, Scott Ferguson wrote: Either method will give you a black screen with the proprietary Nvidia drivers, unless the linux OpenGL library is also installed (from experience). If you have Nvidia proprietary drives try installing mesa-utils and see if they require anything else inst

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/08/11 22:52, AG wrote: On 14/08/11 07:07, Scott Ferguson wrote: Either method will give you a black screen with the proprietary Nvidia drivers, unless the linux OpenGL library is also installed (from experience). If you have Nvidia proprietary drives try installing mesa-utils and see if

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread AG
On 14/08/11 07:07, Scott Ferguson wrote: Either method will give you a black screen with the proprietary Nvidia drivers, unless the linux OpenGL library is also installed (from experience). If you have Nvidia proprietary drives try installing mesa-utils and see if they require anything else

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:21:09 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello Patrick, > In my case, what fixed that was installation of nvidia-glx-ia32. That was the one that worked for me, too. If you hadn't said anything, I wouldn't have known where to look next. Thanks. -- Regards _ / )

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:22 PM, H Xu wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's > official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when the > google-earth starts up, it doesn't display the earth, but an empty black > region. Despite

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:22:27 +0800, H Xu wrote: > I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's > official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when > the google-earth starts up, it doesn't display the earth, but an empty > black region. Despite this bla

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/08/11 13:57, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Sunday 14 August 2011 05:22:27 H Xu wrote: Hello, I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when the google-earth starts up, it doesn't display the earth,

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 14 August 2011 05:22:27 H Xu wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's > official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when > the google-earth starts up, it doesn't display the earth, but an empty > black region. Despite

Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-13 Thread H Xu
Hello, I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when the google-earth starts up, it doesn't display the earth, but an empty black region. Despite this black region, other part of google earth works