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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