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Technogenius
March 13th, 2008, 08:13 PM
Well now that I know what this forum is for, it's time to ask a question. I added the Medibuntu repositories and downloaded Google Earth. It installs fine, but every time I launch it it freezes on the splash screen. I heard this might be related to my ATI Radeon X1200 video card. Is there any way to fix this? Or do I have to get a better video card (:))?
hyperair
March 13th, 2008, 09:00 PM
Try turning off desktop effects, then starting Google Earth.
jocko
March 19th, 2008, 01:13 PM
Try the fix from this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3227468&postcount=8), it worked for me.

Download the attached .tar.gz file and extract it to your ~/.googleearth directory.
Technogenius
March 19th, 2008, 03:13 PM
1. I don't have desktop effects enabled.
2. Where would this /googleearth directory be located? I installed via the repositories.
jocko
March 20th, 2008, 01:59 AM
1. I don't have desktop effects enabled.
2. Where would this /googleearth directory be located? I installed via the repositories.

Sorry, I was wrong about the path. It should NOT be in ~/.googleearth (which is hidden in your home directory).
It should be in /usr/lib/googleearth.

You can do it like this:
First download libGL.tar.gz from the post I linked to to your desktop.
Then open up a terminal and:
cd Desktop
tar -xvvzf libGL.tar.gz
sudo mv libGL.so.1.2 libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/googleearth
ccxx
March 21st, 2008, 09:39 AM
Thank you , i solved with your solution but note , the path you suggest did not work for me.

Sorry, I was wrong about the path. It should NOT be in ~/.googleearth (which is hidden in your home directory).
It should be in /usr/lib/googleearth.

You can do it like this:
First download libGL.tar.gz from the post I linked to to your desktop.
Then open up a terminal and:
cd Desktop
tar -xvvzf libGL.tar.gz
sudo mv libGL.so.1.2 libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/googleearth