@madbiologist - testing with Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 2. A bit like Miroslav in that I failed to install Google Earth.
I'm using a Live CD of 10.10 Alpha 2 (32 bit) and ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] Here's my tuppenceworth Cheers, and thanks for working on this, K ============================================================== http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html and Download GoogleEarthLinux.bin ubu...@ubuntu:~$ cd Downloads ubu...@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ ls -al total 30692 drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 60 2010-07-01 20:28 . drwxr-xr-x 25 ubuntu ubuntu 700 2010-07-01 20:18 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 31388873 2010-07-01 20:28 GoogleEarthLinux.bin ubu...@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ chmod 777 GoogleEarthLinux.bin ubu...@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 5.2.1.1329.............................................................. setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty ^ setup.data/setup.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found ^ Couldn't load 'setup.data/setup.xml' Tried an alternative way: ubu...@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ cd /tmp/ge/setup.data/bin/Linux/x86/ ubu...@ubuntu:/tmp/ge/setup.data/bin/Linux/x86$ mv setup.gtk setup.gtk2 ubu...@ubuntu:/tmp/ge/setup.data/bin/Linux/x86$ cd /tmp/ge ubu...@ubuntu:/tmp/ge$ ./setup.sh Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module "libcanberra-gtk-module.so": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option loki_setup: Suspect size value for option option Installing mimetypes... Installing desktop menu entries... Installing desktop icon... Fatal error in __driConfigOptions line 1, column 0: unknown encoding. Google Earth has caught signal 6. We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed. This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written to this text file: /home/ubuntu/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4c2cfbe3.txt Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google. ubu...@ubuntu:/tmp/ge$ cat /home/ubuntu/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4c2cfbe3.txt Major Version 5 Minor Version 2 Build Number 0001 Build Date Jun 10 2010 Build Time 16:15:55 OS Type 3 OS Major Version 2 OS Minor Version 6 OS Build Version 35 OS Patch Version 0 Crash Signal 6 Crash Time 1278016700 Up Time 0.622359 Stacktrace from glibc: ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xd030b)[0xbe930b] [0xf2e400] /lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x182)[0x6fbe42] /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so(+0xb9af)[0x3e109af] /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so(+0x10cd8)[0x3e15cd8] /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so(+0x11981)[0x3e16981] /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so(+0x9655)[0x3e0e655] /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1(+0x3d992)[0xe43992] /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1(+0x19f07)[0xe1ff07] /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1(+0x1519a)[0xe1b19a] /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1(glXChooseVisual+0x36)[0xe1be56] ./librender.so(+0x4d673)[0xda0673] ./librender.so(_ZN12RenderWidget4initEv+0x116)[0xda1056] ./librender.so(_ZN12RenderWidgetC1EP7QWidgetPKc6QFlagsIN2Qt10WindowTypeEE+0x16c)[0xda1eac] ./librender.so(_ZN5earth6render12RenderWindow12createWidgetEv+0x82)[0xd84432] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client12ModuleWidget9showEventEP10QShowEvent+0x94)[0xbc62d4] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget5eventEP6QEvent+0xabb)[0x11287ef] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN19QApplicationPrivate13notify_helperEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0xa0)[0x10d8e20] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x16f)[0x10e28a3] ./libQtCore.so.4(_ZN16QCoreApplication14notifyInternalEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x70)[0x336d50] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0xcc)[0x112b55c] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate14show_recursiveEv+0x74)[0x112b264] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1f2)[0x112b482] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0x112b4d5] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0x112ba97] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1d9)[0x112b469] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0x112b4d5] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate14show_recursiveEv+0x74)[0x112b264] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1f2)[0x112b482] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0x112b4d5] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0x112ba97] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1d9)[0x112b469] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0x112b4d5] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate14show_recursiveEv+0x74)[0x112b264] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1f2)[0x112b482] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0x112b4d5] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0x112ba97] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1d9)[0x112b469] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0x112b4d5] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0x112ba97] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1d9)[0x112b469] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0x112b4d5] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0x112ba97] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate12showChildrenEb+0x1d9)[0x112b469] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN14QWidgetPrivate11show_helperEv+0x45)[0x112b4d5] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10setVisibleEb+0x33b)[0x112ba97] ./libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidget10showNormalEv+0x4a)[0x111be9e] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN10MainWindow18readScreensizeInfoEv+0xc35)[0xbae225] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application12SetupMainWinENS0_3Kvw7ProductEb+0x29e)[0xbed61e] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3runEv+0x42f)[0xbf447f] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(earthmain+0x27d)[0xbe873d] ./googleearth-bin(_init+0x122)[0x80486c2] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x6e4ce6] ./googleearth-bin(_init+0x91)[0x8048631] ubu...@ubuntu:/tmp/ge$ -- OpenGL graphic errors in google earth https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570879 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp