Google Earth Install

[Roger Neth Jr]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 09:04 -0700, Doug Rintoul wrote:
> Phil Pinkerton wrote:
> > Geeze ... when I tried to run Google Earth ( feisty 7.04 amd64 updated)
> > 
> > My system jumps to the login screen ??  Whoa not going there again.
> > 
> > Probably due to FireFox 64bit.
> > 
> > The race is on to get 64bit going I hope Ubuntu takes the lead.
> > 
> I have seen this happen when I have used the NVidia drivers from the 
> NVidia site and the version of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglx.so (or was 
> it /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so) gets overwritten with the 
> Ubuntu one. Even glxinfo would cause X to crash and drop me back to the 
> login screen. Google Earth uses OpenGL so that may be your problem.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> 

Hello, I had the same problem until I uninstalled googleearth and used
Automatix to reinstall the package and it works now.

HTH

rogern

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