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Re: Google Earth display problem



On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 08:19 -0500, Dale Hair wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:55 +0200, 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?
> > 
> > Regards, Jan
> > 
> > 
> Same here with Radeon 7000 except for the font problem.

The same happens with pinball (unstable).



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