Google Earth stuck in graphics emulation

[Dotan Cohen]

On 10/03/07, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> M. Jones is correct, you need the Radeon proprietary driver. The good
> folks at Livna have made it available. Enable the Livna repository;
> see http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/UsingLivna. Then, to see what's
> available, run:
>
> yum list \*fglrx\*
>
> You need a kmod- etc package and a xorg-x11-drv-fglrx package, as
> appropriate for your system. Since the xorg-x11-drv-fglrx package
> requires the kmod package, run
>
> yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
>
> and you will get both.
>

Thanks. I did install from linva.

> > As per the instructions at http://www.fedorafaq.org/ I drop to
> > runlevel 3 after installing kmod-fglrx via yum. I try to run
> > ati-fglrx-config-display, but it is not installed! Other than
> > installing from the tarball, is there any way to properly configure
> > fglrx?
>
> I believe it is now configured correctly out of the rpm package. I'm
> sure someone more knowledgeable will correct me if I am wrong. In any
> case, I don't have ati-fglrx-config-display on my system, and the
> driver works well enough for me to run Google Earth.
>

It wasn't. I actually had fglrx installed a month ago, but could not
get it to function. Now that I've run fglrx-config-display, we'll see
how goes it.



Now that I've enabled fglrx, I have two new problems:
1) I cannot get my 1400x1050 screen resolution back. CTRL-ALT-+ would
not switch modes (1400x1050 and 1024x768 are configured in xorg.conf)
so I commented out the "1024x768" option in xorg.conf. Now, I can only
get 1680x1050.
2) Google Earth won't start. It's stuck on the Splash Screen, for a
few minutes now. I tried twice, got stuck both times.

Dotan Cohen

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