[PLUG] Google Earth on Slackware Laptop

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 22:08:23 UTC 2019


The issue we saw at the clinic was definitely nvidia specific (or nouveau)
and the fix will not apply to this laptop.

What is the problem? Are you seeing the same issue?



On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 1:30 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> At the clinic we got Google Earth to work on my desktop machine. I
> recall that we had to enable something related to 3D graphics. I don't
> recall if that was nVidia specific or not.
>
> My laptop, Lenovo X200 Tablet, does not have nVidia. lshw reports:
>
> id:
> display:        0
> description:    VGA compatible controller
> product:        Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
> vendor:         Intel Corporation
> physical id: 2
> bus info: pci at 0000:00:02.0
> version:        07
> width:          64 bits
> clock:          33MHz
> capabilities:   msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
> configuration: driver    =    i915
>                  latency    =    0
> resources: irq    :    45
>                  memory    :    f2000000-f23fffff
>                  memory    :    d0000000-dfffffff
>                  ioport    :    1800(size=8)
>
> What do I look for/install to get Google Earth working on the laptop?
>
> I tried running google-earth-pro from a terminal, hoping to see it
> complain about missing something, but it doesn't report anything.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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