Google Earth

[NoOp]

On 08/31/2008 09:06 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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.

You can buy a small fan and direct it towards the chip. I'd also
recommend checking the thermal heatsink compound under the heatsink -
could be that they forgot to put some on properly. Probably wouldn't
hurt to put another heatsink on top of the other one, or just buy a
better heatsink. Either way, you'll need to fix the problem so that you
don't have problems later on.

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