Google Earth on Linux (ubuntu)
April 4, 2007 11:04 pmAfter a discussion on a bug in the Xorg and ATI graphics card, I installed Google Earth to check that my graphics card is actually functioning correctly. My graphics card is the RADEON Mobility 9000 with the following Xorg.0.log:
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] GART texture map handle = 0xb0302000
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] GART Texture map mapped at 0xb51da000
(II) RADEON(0): Using 8 MB GART aperture
(II) RADEON(0): Using 5 MB for GART textures
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] Initialized kernel GART heap manager, 5111808
The driver that I’m using is ATI and not FGLRX, also direct rendering is not supported either. Anyway I followed this guide to install Google Earth, which is quite simple and it works fine right from the installation without any changes to the settings. The installation basically just consists of 3 comments:
wget http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
If everything goes well, you can run Google Earth from your menu under Applications > Internet. Here is a screen shot of Google Earth running, click on the image for more screenshots.
3 Responses to “Google Earth on Linux (ubuntu)”
G.Earth is cool
But I think it will slow down my computer by A LOT. You really should’ve done ISE I think it would’ve suited you better! Anyway its good to know that you are still keeping your old machine up and running.
Its a great day today. But I am going to work
Surely your computer can handle it if mine can, planing to keep my computer for another if it doesn’t break :). Took me a while to find, can you recognize the place in the screenshots?
Yeah, thanks for putting my house onto the website
HAHA…
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