yeah, i think it's due to ATI card. There is a lot of issue between googleearth and ATI :/
it seems to be a googleearth dev issue, so we can't do something ... Sorry -- GoogleEarth freezes at splashscreen after update to 4.07 https://launchpad.net/bugs/97056 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs