Finally got GoogleEarth to work, video display problems fixed and I'm happy as clam at high tide. Here's what worked for me-----I had called on my son(who has been a Linuxhead for years)to help, but...
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Finally got GoogleEarth to work, video display problems fixed and I'm happy as clam at high tide. Here's what worked for me-----I had called on my son(who has been a Linuxhead for years)to help, but...
WOW! Finally got my desktop back,thanks to all the help (one problem solved). That brings me back to the orig.-getting goggleearth to load. If my video card isn't 3D it's a moot point anyway,correct?...
From recovery screen, terminal shell puts me at root. Do I want to try things from root or should I change dir to a safer place?
OK, now I have a whole new problem--went to sys-admin-drivers and ticked the box to download the nVidia driver, after the install and reboot all I have now is a black screen. I got the boot option...
OK,1st off the command "glxinfo" gives back nothing. 2nd I'm not using visual effects. Here are specs on vid card:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
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Maybe you are right, however that app ran wonderfully when I was an XP user, same 'puter and hardware. So you'd think it would run in Ubuntu. Computer is a Vio laptop, 5 years old, i gig ram, nVideo...
Ok, I uninstalled via Synaptic, re installed with the code in above reply, rebooted, clicked on the icon in applications, the same thing happened(was kicked back to log in screen). Synaptic shows...
Hi y'all,
I've gotten rid of Windows after many years, now have an exclusive Ubuntu box and am feeling very good about the change, even with the learning curve. So far everything has worked out of...