On 14/08/11 22:52, AG wrote:
On 14/08/11 07:07, Scott Ferguson wrote:<snip> Either method will give you a black screen with the proprietary Nvidia drivers, unless the linux OpenGL library is also installed (from experience). If you have Nvidia proprietary drives try installing mesa-utils and see if they require anything else installed - the "anything else" is what is required to unblack googleearth (you don't need mesa-utils). CheersDoes this apply to the nouveau driver as well, or will GE work fine with this? AG
Googleearth requires OpenGL - I'd only be guessing if I said the nouveau driver uses the same ones (though I suspect it does).
*Perhaps some kind person who uses the nouveau driver and googleearth* could give you the output of:-
dpkg --get-selections and you could look for the missing OpenGL libraries...From memory you said you're running Wheezy so there may be more than just nouveau differences with my builds (I run Squeeze KDEs).
dpkg --get-selections | grep mesa | grep -v dev libgl1-mesa-dri install libgl1-mesa-glx install libglu1-mesa install I don't know you DE or sys info tools - if you install mesa-utils you can:- $ scott@work:~$ glxinfo | grep 'direct rendering' direct rendering: YesI which case googleearth should work. I suspect it may (ge) have the same requirements as marble - which is another way you could try tracking down you requirements (it's also a very sweet application - sort of FOSS googleearth).
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