Sorry for the late send, I made a mistake and sent it to David directly. Which was denied. On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 15:30 +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2007, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote: > > > > as a normal user, I can't start googleearth (all version, incl. the > > > > newest). but, if I make: xhost +; then start googleearth as root, it > > > > work correct. > > > > > > Is your regular user in the 'video' group? In order to use OpenGL > > > applications with the nVidia driver, I believe you need to be in this > > > group to have access to the necessary devices. > > > > yes, I'm in the video group, also audio etc..., but a good idea! > > I also cannot run googleearth except as root. Have not seen a library not > found item but a permission denied message. Something to do with how their > installation sets up the symlinks, I believe. Anyone fixed this? apt-cache policy googleearth-package it is in Etch, Lenny and Sid, in the contrib section. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=googleearth-package 8-) -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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