ATI 8.40.4 driver and Googleearth

[David McGlone]

On Tuesday 14 August 2007 7:44:48 pm Larry Hartman wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:22:42 pm kubadmin wrote:
> > Larry,
> >
> > I installed the new driver and everything seems ok, speed is much better
> > (I'm getting 2095 fps with an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro) but, and this is a BIG
> > "but", GoogleEarth no longer works.
> > It worked fine with the 8.3x.x versions of the driver. I've even
> > uninstalled the 8.40.4 driver according to ATI's instructions and
> > re-installed it the wiky way but the problem remains.
> > Do you have any hints of what I might try?
> > GoogleEarth is probably the only app I really need a functional ATI
> > driver for. It didn't work with open drivers or the fglrx driver
> > distributed with kubuntu until you came out with your wiki and now I'm
> > back to stake zero.
>
> Antonio:
>
> I can confirm your frustration and I too have a broken Googleearth.  I
> stumbled across what is likely the problem while looking at the Synaptic
> package manager description for Googleearth.  I pasted the issue at the
> bottom, but highly recommend not following the instructions to fix the
> issue....as the fix seems to make a bad problem worse.
>
> What I do recommend is that you reinstall the previous driver and reinstall
> Googleearth afterwards.  Whenever I download the latest fglrx driver I
> always hold on to the last working version until I know the latest appears
> to work.
>
> The wiki still has the last version listed, so I will leave it up for a day
> or two yet....and now that I know about this issue I will post it on the
> wiki when I edit it for the latest version.  As far as the wiki goes, I did
> not start it, nor do I own it, but I do update it as a part of the
> community--seems as though I get to downloading the drivers quicker than
> others.
>
> I will probably continue using latest fglrx driver and wait until
> Googleearth issues get resolved.  Not a pressing program for me at the
> moment.
>
>
> Larry
>
> ===========================
>
> googleearth for Ubuntu
> ----------------------
>
> If you have an ATI graphic card using the proprietary driver (fglrx),
> googleearth may freeze at splashscreen[0].
>
> Here is a possible workaround[1][2]:
> $ cd /usr/lib/googleearth/
> $ sudo wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 -O libGL.so.1
>
> It will replace the shipped libGL.so.1 with a previous version from fglrx.
> (Thanks to Tyler McAfee for digging this).
>
> Links:
> [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+bug/97056
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+bug/97056/comments/14
> [2]
> http://n01getsout.com/blog/2006/11/26/google-earth-for-linux-freezing-with-
>ati/
>
>  -- The Medibuntu Team <medibuntu at sos-sts.com>  Thu,  5 Apr 2007 12:33:15
> +0200

I don't know about everyone else but I had the same problem with google earth 
with my ATI Radeon Express 200M but I happened to reboot the machine and 
google earth worked fine. If you already haven't give a reboot a try.

-- 
David M.