Google Earth and nVidia
Lonni J Friedman
netllama at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 00:52:35 UTC 2008
Your nvidia driver installation is broken. If you're using Livna's
RPMs, then talk to them.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> I just tried the latest GoogleEarth 4.3.7204.0836 (beta) with the latest
> kernel and nVidia drivers, and the result was:
>
> $ googleearth
> Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version
> 173.14.05,
> but this NVIDIA driver component has version 169.04. Please
> make
> sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
> have the same version.
> NVIDIA: Direct rendering failed; attempting indirect rendering.
>
> And the screen opens, but no earth or controls show.
>
> Anybody have any idea what's up with that? TIA.
>
> $ rpm -q kernel
> kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.25.4-10.fc8.x86_64
> $ rpm -qa \*nvidia\*
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.05-1.lvn8.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-173.14.05-2.lvn8.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.4-10.fc8-173.14.05-2.lvn8.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.05-1.lvn8.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.24.7-92.fc8-173.14.05-1.lvn8.x86_64
>
> --
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