On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:48 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
The version of Google Earth I installed last December was working great this morning. Then, I decided to update to the latest version and when I tried to do that with yum, I didn't have the right name for the package (now, I think it may be "google-earth"), so I downloaded the file (GoogleEarthLinux.bin) and installed with "sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin" The latest version is now installed and I can launch it, without any problem, but, it does not seem to work......... :-)
Where did you get this?
Mark: I got it from google.com I have google among my yum repositories, but I couldn't remember what the package was called, so I couldn't "yum update" and I downloaded and installed their file, but it won't go. It isn't getting any date from the Google Earth servers. That worked perfectly, with the older version I had been using. Lanny
I tried to install google-earth with yum but either that isn't the name of the package or it is not available in the Google repository. Then, I did some reading on the Google site. Question: How do I determine whether or not the CPU in this box (I think it's an Intel Celeron 2.6 GHz) supports SSE2 or not? I suspect the CPU does *not* support SSE2. Posting some information below:
Hi Folks,
After taking a peek and looking at some of the issues in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/earth-linux/browse_thread/thread/b2a5e...
I thought you guys deserved an update. The long and short of it is that Google Earth 4.3 only works in Linux on machines with processors that support SSE2. This means a P4, A64, or greater is now required. I too was sad to see my little Athlon XP-M machine unable to run 4.3 with all of it's beautiful sunlight and atmosphere effects.
However, I'd like to let you know that we're aware of this and we're looking into getting 4.2 available for you folks!
Thanks for your patience, ERR
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SOLVED. I went back to the previous version of Google Earth for Linux. It must be that the Celeron CPU does *not* support SSE2. Previous version works great. :-)
Google Earth 4.2.0205.5730 Build Date Nov 13 2007 Build Time 17:50:46 Renderer OpenGL Operating System Linux (2.6.18.1) Video Driver Tungsten Graphics, Inc Max Texture Size 2048x2048 Server kh.google.com User
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Lanny Marcus