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Re: Google Earth display problem



2006. június 17. 14:48,
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
-> debian-user@lists.debian.org,:
> Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> > Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com.
> >
> > I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems:
> >
> > -- when the programs starts, it complains it cannot find the
> >    Bitstream Vera Sans font, although I have it installed.
> >
> > -- the display behaves weirdly. This is difficult to describe,
> >    but the "earth" image does not stay put in its proper place
> >    inside the window; it often "jumps" to the left, becoming
> >    invisible, or sometimes half-obscured by the left edge of the
> >    window. Sometimes resizing the window will put the earth image
> >    back in its place.
> >
> > I'm using a Radeon 9200 SE with the Linux (open-source) DRI
> > drivers (have to, because ATI does not seem to have a
> > proprietary driver for xorg 7.0). The openGL stuff seems to work
> > (at least, ppracer works OK; glxinfo says "direct rendering yes").
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Is anyone with an nvidia card having troubles?
I have googleearth running OK with an nvidia card, but I am having the font 
issue too; obviously it has nothing to do with graphics cards.

Daniel

-- 
LeVA



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