Re: wheezy amd64: google-earth black screen

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Am Freitag, 16. November 2012 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I installed google-earth, but on starting it all I get is a black screen.
> > Googling this you get 100's of hits, referring to things that I have
> > installed.
> > Relevant to this I have installed:
> >
> > nvidia-glx
> > nvidia-glx-ia32
> > libgl1-nvidia-glx
> > nvidia-kernel-3.2.0-4-amd64
> > nvidia-kernel-common
> >
> > with all their dependencies. Yet something is obviously missing :-(
> > any hints as to what it might be?
> > Running wheezy amd64 and this seems to be X's only problem...
> >
> > Hugo
>
> You must install nvidia-glx from the i386-repöository. Look in the wiki or 
> howtos at "multiarch". You have to set up a multiarch environment.
>
> On the other hand you can do as I did (I am lazy). I removed all nvidia-
> packages and installed the nvidia-drivers from the nvidia site.
>
> Pay attention, to build the 32-bit part, too.

It appears google-earth has problems with multiarch:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=82290#p445999

"Does not work with Google Earth, which does not yet support multi-arch."

Hugo