If you are running Linux and Google earth, you might find that after updating different different video packages (x.org drivers included) that Google Earth display a black screen with no earth when you open it. Its a problem with the LibGL drivers, and its fixable.$ export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose $ google-earth LibGL error: failed to load driver: swrast I have seen this few different times; usually after a package update or on an initial install - see my post on Fresh Install Ubuntu 12.10 (recovering from HDD failure) item 9 & 23. This time all I had to do was re-install my nVidia driver. I use the version direct from nVidia. Download the latest from- http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us mine is version 319.17. Here are the steps to do the update in Ubuntu 12.10.
when you run google-earth our pretty globe should now show up! |
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