Bug 158701 – googleearth does not start with ati-drivers >=8.30.3-r1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jory A. Pratt 2006-12-20 20:15:21 UTC]

There is nothing we can do about this I know. Just figured a message could be inserted telling users of ati-drivers that they will need to switch to xorg-x11 opengl in order to use googleearth.

Portage 2.1.2_rc3-r8 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-ck2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-ck2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8
Last Sync: Unknown
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.5-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -ffast-math -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fforce-addr -ftree-vectorize"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -ffast-math -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fforce-addr -ftree-vectorize"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache cvs distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/gentoo /home/mozilla"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi aiglx alsa audacious berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc firefox gif gnome gtk gtk+ hal input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics ipv6 jpeg kernel_linux libg++ mp3 ncurses no-old-linux nptl nptlonly objc objc++ opengl pam pcre perl pic png python readline session ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx xinerama xorg zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2006-12-20 20:17:20 UTC]

I should also note I have sent a basic report upstream for ati-drivers about the breakage ... Soon as I hear from them you will hear from me :-b

[Comment 2 Christopher Ribble 2006-12-29 11:18:00 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> There is nothing we can do about this I know. Just figured a message could be
> inserted telling users of ati-drivers that they will need to switch to xorg-x11
> opengl in order to use googleearth.
> 
> Portage 2.1.2_rc3-r8 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0,
> 2.6.19-ck2 x86_64)
> =================================================================
> System uname: 2.6.19-ck2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
> Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8
> Last Sync: Unknown
> ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
> dev-lang/python:     2.5-r1
> dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
> dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
> sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
> sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
> sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
> sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
> virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
> AUTOCLEAN="yes"
> CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -ffast-math -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
> -pipe -fforce-addr -ftree-vectorize"
> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
> CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -ffast-math -ftracer
> -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fforce-addr -ftree-vectorize"
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y"
> FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache cvs distlocks metadata-transfer
> multilib-strict sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
> LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed"
> PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
> --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
> --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/gentoo /home/mozilla"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> USE="amd64 X acpi aiglx alsa audacious berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt dbus
> dlloader dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc firefox gif gnome gtk gtk+ hal
> input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics ipv6 jpeg
> kernel_linux libg++ mp3 ncurses no-old-linux nptl nptlonly objc objc++ opengl
> pam pcre perl pic png python readline session ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype-fonts
> type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx xinerama xorg zlib"
> Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS,
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
> 

I am having all kind of issues with ati-drivers-8.32.5. I get major display corruption issues in various OpenGL contexts. Running fgl_glxgears causes a banner of display corruption across the top of my screen and OpenGL games are unplayable due to the display corruption.

Are you having a similar issue with Google Earth? Could this be an upstream issue?

[Comment 3 Scott Short 2006-12-29 20:43:54 UTC]

Check out this thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3810007.html#3810007

This fixed my problem (googleearth hangs on start-up). It seems that GE is looking for a missing lib (libGL.so.1). 

[Comment 4 Jory A. Pratt 2007-01-05 00:37:46 UTC]

Created attachment 105455 [details, diff]
ati and nvidia properly supported even with newer ati-drivers

Patch says it all. Simple hack to keep googleearth happy with ati-drivers >8.27.x

[Comment 5 Jory A. Pratt 2007-01-05 00:51:05 UTC]

Created attachment 105456 [details, diff]
force nvidia for no reason

Like I told genstef there is no need to force nvidia, mesa can be used but he insists on forcing a full package not needed. I have made my point clear and do not agree but here it is.

[Comment 6 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2007-01-08 07:56:03 UTC]

thanks, fixed

[Comment 7 Jory A. Pratt 2007-01-08 12:37:04 UTC]

This is not fixed ..

        amd64? (
                app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs
                app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs
                || (
                        >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-7.0
                        x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
                        x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers
                        video_cards_fglrx? ( x11-drivers/ati-drivers )
                        <x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8 ) )

[Comment 8 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2007-01-09 09:15:44 UTC]

I cannot listen to you if you dont explain yourself. Looks good and correct to me. DOnt reopen this bug without explaining in detail what is wrong, why it is wrong and why you would want to do it different. And think about it ..

[Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-01-26 15:35:51 UTC]

*** Bug 163922 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***