[wellylug] Google Earth issues

[Daniel Pittman]

Steve Macdonald <dakmani1 at yahoo.co.nz> writes:

> Hey guys, I have installed Google Earth on a fresh install of Suse
> 10.2, when I go to run Google Earth it logs me out and I end up having
> to log back into Gnome again. I have installed it on another laptop
> running suse 10.2 and the same problem. Both are onboard sis graphics
> chips. I have installed suse 10.2 onto a desktop pc with an nvidia
> card and google works just fine. Google Earth works on these laptops
> using ubuntu however the graphics flicker but does not log me out.
>
> Any ideas on how to solve this problem.

Well, "logs me out" is probably shorthand for "causes my X server to
crash, but Linux recovers and I can log in again."

> I am not to sure on how to find any error messages I may be getting if
> thats what is required to help solve this problem.

Check /var/log/xorg.0.log (typically, but it may be a slightly
differently named log in /var/log) for details of the crash.

Contact your vendor for support -- even if Google Earth is doing crazy
things it shouldn't crash the X server so there is a serious bug there.

Regards,
        Daniel
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