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Post date: May 6, 2013 3:50:13 AM
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.
To see the debug yourself, run google-earth from the command-line with debug messages turned on.
$ export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose$ google-earthYou probably will see something like:
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.
- set the default boot up to runlevel 3 (text with network) or 1 (single user)
- edit /etc/default/grub
- change the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text"
- ****run
sudo update-grubto regenerate grub files - NOTE: you can also set this option at the GRUB2 bootmanager menu, but it is a one time setting
- reboot
- login, the sudo su to get a root prompt
- run the downloaded NVIDIA file - (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17.run)
- let it build from source
- you will need the linux headers for this (if you don't already have them installed)
- sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
- Don't update your xorg.conf if you have it already setup.
- set the default boot up to runlevel 5 (full gui login)
- edit /etc/default/grub
- change the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
- ****run
sudo update-grubto regenerate grub files
- re-boot
- /sbin/init 6
when you run google-earth our pretty globe should now show up!
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