Google Earth

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sun Aug 31 16:06:37 UTC 2008


David Fox wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:41 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>   
>> Buy an aftermarket fan. Seriously; they are cheap and easy to install &
>> it will save you from burning up the card.
>>     
>
> On an embedded card? I think he said the graphics chip was on the
> motherboard and not a separate pci or pci-x card.
>
> If the OP is using a 64 bit ubuntu there is another package that needs
> to be installed or googleearth won't work - it'll just display a black
> screen and never connect to the googleearth server. The package is
> something like lib32nss-mdns.
>
>   
    Yes the Video chip is on the motherboard and it has a small aluminum 
heat sink on it. I might just try a fan sucking the heat away.

    My Ubuntu is plain 32 bit and it works great. I just have trouble 
with added software.

Karl


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