On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:48 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at 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 <snip> 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