Re: Google Earth and nVidia [partly solved...]


On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 17:52 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Your nvidia driver installation is broken. If you're using Livna's
RPMs, then talk to them.

OK so part of the problem was that I had files from the nVidia installer
lying around from before there were Livna RPMs available for that 169.04
version. My card didn't work with any older versions, so I used the
install script when it came out, because I didn't have a fully
functional machine without those drivers. That's an object lesson in
why it's not a good idea to mix the script installer and RPMs. I think
I have that cleaned up now (though it's hard to tell for sure without a
manifest of all the files installed by the script).

But when I start the new googleearth as a normal user, I still don't see
the globe or the controls. It works fine if I start it as root. The
SEtroublesooter doesn't complain, either.

Any idea what's up with that?

Thanks.


On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just tried the latest GoogleEarth 4.3.7204.0836 (beta) with the latest
kernel and nVidia drivers, and the result was:

$ googleearth
Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version
173.14.05,
but this NVIDIA driver component has version 169.04. Please
make
sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
have the same version.
NVIDIA: Direct rendering failed; attempting indirect rendering.

And the screen opens, but no earth or controls show.

Anybody have any idea what's up with that? TIA.

$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8.x86_64
kernel-2.6.25.4-10.fc8.x86_64
$ rpm -qa \*nvidia\*
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.05-1.lvn8.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-173.14.05-2.lvn8.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.4-10.fc8-173.14.05-2.lvn8.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.05-1.lvn8.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.24.7-92.fc8-173.14.05-1.lvn8.x86_64

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