google-earth anybody?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 30 July 2012 15:51:05 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 07/30/2012 05:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 30 July 2012 04:16:55 Ric Moore did opine:
> >> On 07/29/2012 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Greetings all;
> >>> 
> >>> I first tried to dl and install with dpkg, the current version from
> >>> google. No dice, can't find its binary pieces, bales out.
> >>> 
> >>> Then I found the make-googleearth-package utility and installed
> >>> that, then ran it, which downloaded yet another copy from google. 
> >>> Then it failed, missing dependency's.  Fired up synaptic, used fix
> >>> broken to pull in several other bit & pieces.  Re-ran the make
> >>> script, bailed out on versions & recommended I use the --force
> >>> option.
> >>> 
> >>> That squawked about 200 or so libraries it couldn't find the
> >>> versions of, but made a package anyway, so I installed it.
> >>> 
> >>> Now it fusses about lack of direct-x availability, which I assume
> >>> nouveau doesn't have, but regardless of which box I check on the
> >>> startup requester, google-earth's startup advisory box just goes
> >>> away.
> >>> 
> >>> Has anyone succeeded in making google-earth run on a ubuntu
> >>> 10.04-4-122- rtai system?
> >> 
> >> Gene, ole buddy, ole friend. Why are you using Nouveau and expecting
> >> it to do useful stuff? Don't make me come up to WV to hurt you. Use
> >> "additional drivers" and get your nVidia card installed correctly.
> >> It's not like you ever listened to Stallman anyway. <chuckles> Ric
> > 
> > Well, its not like it isn't working pretty well these days Ric.  Not
> > quite as fast as the nvidia driver, but a hell of a lot less hassle. 
> > But the main reason is that the nvidia driver gets some of its speed
> > by totally locking out the IRQ's for hundreds of microseconds at a
> > time.  I know for a fact that it is absolutely verboten if you want
> > to be able to move stepper motors more than 3 or 4 rpms with self
> > generated steps.
> 
> You're wanting to have google earth running on your milling machine
> setup?? I think that would blow the dickens out of "latency" overall.
> It's a blooming monster that traditionally eats up cpu and ram like a
> junkyard goat. But, bottom line, you need accelerated graphics, and a
> bunch of vram would help. Nouveau still doesn't do that. I bought an
> nVidia card with 2 gigs of vram for under $50. <cackles> Ric

No silly. I am running that specific distro because I might stand a chance 
of having compatibility between all these machines, it was hell trying to 
translate what I was doing, or could not do on an rpm based system, when I 
could in fact do well on the milling machine or lathes boxes.

The theory being that if I could run freecad (which gets about 2 updates a 
week) on one of those boxes, then I could do it here too, something I could 
not do when running pclos on this machine.  Ditto for eagle, OpenSCAD, 
HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC, it all runs on this box NOW.  pclos is a great distro 
for the social stuffs, but it fails miserably when it comes to the 
productivity stuff.

So no, no metal carving machines are being operated by this machine, and 
likely never will be.  Big Iron when I built it yes, capable of running 
even small iron well, no.  Not without offloading much of the control to 
dedicated boards.

Cheers, Gene
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