[gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[Nico Schümann]

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Hi,

yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and
everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is
to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why is Google Earth masked?
Has anyone any problems with Google Earth?

Nico Schümann

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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:31, Nico Schümann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and
> everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is
> to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why is Google Earth masked?
> Has anyone any problems with Google Earth?
>
> Nico Schümann

It's masked because it has only been in the tree for a matter of days. Ebuilds 
usually require at least 30 days of existence before they're considered to be 
marked stable.

Personally I've had no issues with Google Earth. I'm using a geforce fx 5200 
with the nvidia binary drivers and the performance is great.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[员旭鹏]

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2006/6/15, Nico Schümann <nico.schuemann@googlemail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and
> everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is
> to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why is Google Earth masked?
> Has anyone any problems with Google Earth?
>
> Nico Schümann
>

try load "glx" module in /etc/X11/xorg.conf：

Section "Module"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
EndSection


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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[Nico Schümann]

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2006/6/15, 员旭鹏 <recordus@gmail.com>:
>
> try load "glx" module in /etc/X11/xorg.conf：
>
> Section "Module"
>     Load  "glx"
>     Load  "extmod"
>     Load  "xtrap"
>     Load  "record"
>     Load  "dbe"
>     Load  "dri"
>     Load  "freetype"
>     Load  "type1"
> EndSection
>

glx is already loaded.
Section "Module"
        Load  "vnc"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection


But I think it is indifferent, because I've just bought a new graphics card
(because of my new flat screen). Hopefully, the nVidia driver supports it.
My old one (Riva TNT2) is not longer supported (it actually was supported a
few years ago, but nVidia only has these all-in-one drivers. I just can't
find the old one).

Nico Schümann

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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 6/15/06, Nico Schümann <nico.schuemann@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2006/6/15, 员旭鹏 <recordus@gmail.com>:
>
> >
> > try load "glx" module in /etc/X11/xorg.conf：
> >
> > Section "Module"
> >     Load  "glx"
> >     Load  "extmod"
> >     Load  "xtrap"
> >     Load  "record"
> >     Load  "dbe"
> >     Load  "dri"
> >     Load  "freetype"
> >     Load  "type1"
> > EndSection
> >
>
> glx is already loaded.
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "vnc"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "xtrap"
>         Load  "glx"
>
>         Load  "dri"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
> EndSection
>
>
> But I think it is indifferent, because I've just bought a new graphics card
> (because of my new flat screen). Hopefully, the nVidia driver supports it.
> My old one (Riva TNT2) is not longer supported (it actually was supported a
> few years ago, but nVidia only has these all-in-one drivers. I just can't
> find the old one).

My old TNT2 card had opengl and direct rendering support and I was
able to play games with a good FPS for that old 32MB card. I used the
nvidia drivers from the DRI project, they work great. I could even
build the kernel with support (there's a specific driver), but I was
too lazy to recompile, guess it would be even better...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Thursday 15 June 2006 14:01, Nico Schümann wrote:
> So why is Google Earth masked?
> Has anyone any problems with Google Earth?

It is not hard masked it just isn't in stable. It is a beta version and it has 
been in the tree for only 3 days. It probably won't become stable before 
Google declares it to be stable and that stable version from Google has been 
in the tree for 30 days. So that should last a while.

So far it is working really well here. It is really nice. :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[Aaron]

On Thursday 15 June 2006 07:01, Nico Schümann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and
> everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is
> to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why is Google Earth masked?
> Has anyone any problems with Google Earth?
>
> Nico Schümann

I am running google earth without any problems.  Its cool that they finally 
came out with a Linux version.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[Mark Knecht]

On 6/15/06, Aaron <venom@venomslair.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 June 2006 07:01, Nico Schümann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and
> > everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is
> > to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why is Google Earth masked?
> > Has anyone any problems with Google Earth?
> >
> > Nico Schümann
>
> I am running google earth without any problems.  Its cool that they finally
> came out with a Linux version.
>

Yep. It's running here on two machines. The X86 machine has DRI and
runs great. On my AMD64 I haven't figured out DRI yet so I get some
messages about needing it, but it still runs and is not too slow.

Guess I need to finally figure out this DRI stuff! ;-)

- Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:27:50 -0500, Aaron wrote:

> I am running google earth without any problems.  Its cool that they
> finally came out with a Linux version.

A shame it's binary-only, so it won't run on everything that runs Linux.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[Nick Rout]

bugger i didn't even know there was an ebuild, i simply downloaded and
installed.

I'll back that out now and use the ebuild.


On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:01:35 +0200
Nico Schümann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> yesterday I read that Google Earth had been released. I did an emerge and
> everything worked as expected - except the speed, but the graphic driver is
> to blame (missing OpenGL support). So why is Google Earth masked?
> Has anyone any problems with Google Earth?
> 
> Nico Schümann

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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth: Masked?

[Nico Schümann]

2006/6/15, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:
> A shame it's binary-only, so it won't run on everything that runs Linux.
Yes, it is, of course. But I think, google will never open the source
because of its policy.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Google Earth: Masked?

[Mick]

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Nick Rout wrote:

> bugger i didn't even know there was an ebuild, i simply downloaded and
> installed.

Yep, it works a treat (other than setting up email - it opens FF).  It is
masked because it is a new ebuild.  If no bugs are reported it'll become
stable within a month.

Any idea how to set it up to open Kmail?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google Earth: Masked?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Saturday 17 June 2006 02:53, Mick wrote:
> Yep, it works a treat (other than setting up email - it opens FF).  It is
> masked because it is a new ebuild.  If no bugs are reported it'll become
> stable within a month.
>
> Any idea how to set it up to open Kmail?

It uses the BROWSER environment variable if it exists to pick a browser to 
which it sends a mailto: link containing all the info to compose a mail in 
the composer that the browser uses to handle mailto. Hope that makes 
sense. :)

Konqueror will use kmail by default. 

$ BROWSER=konqueror googleearth

You may also edit the googleearth script and add BROWSER=whatever at the top 
or you may put it into your global environment like this:

# echo BROWSER=whatever >> /etc/env.d/90browser && env-update && \
	source /etc/profile

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google Earth: Masked?

[Mick]

On 19/06/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> wrote:

> It uses the BROWSER environment variable if it exists to pick a browser to
> which it sends a mailto: link containing all the info to compose a mail in
> the composer that the browser uses to handle mailto. Hope that makes
> sense. :)

Yes it does, thanks.  The problem then is that I do not have set the
BROWSER env variable, because I choose the browser according to
particular browsing needs;  i.e. mostly Opera, sometimes FF, sometimes
Konqueror, rarely Mozilla, Links.

> $ BROWSER=konqueror googleearth

Yes this works nicely, I may just add it to my Fluxbox menu command.

> You may also edit the googleearth script and add BROWSER=whatever at the top

Hmm, this does not seem to work at all:
===============================================
$ googleearth
/usr/bin/googleearth: line 10: =/usr/kde/3.5/bin/konqueror: No such
file or directory
===============================================
I've tried all sorts of nomenclature (placing the path in " ", etc.)
but it won't work.  It just launches Firefox.  Although I've set the
mailto: path in FF config to kmail, FF does not seem to respond to the
'attachto=' that googleearth passes on to it.  As a result a new
message is opened but no attachment is created.

Any idea what the syntax should look like for the googleearth script
to acknowledge the BROWSER env variable?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google Earth: Masked?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 20 June 2006 21:30, Mick wrote:
> Any idea what the syntax should look like for the googleearth script
> to acknowledge the BROWSER env variable?

# diff -Naur /opt/googleearth/googleearth{,-mod}
--- /opt/googleearth/googleearth        2006-06-14 11:14:46.000000000 +0200
+++ /opt/googleearth/googleearth-mod    2006-06-20 21:50:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 # Google Earth startup script
 #

+export BROWSER=konqueror
+
 # Function to find the real directory a program resides in.
 # Feb. 17, 2000 - Sam Lantinga, Loki Entertainment Software
 FindPath()

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google Earth: Masked?

[Mick]

On 20/06/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> wrote:

> +export BROWSER=konqueror

Excellent!  It works nicely now.  Thank you very much.  :-)
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