Bug 139447 – googleearth 4_beta not displaying earth images properly

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Thomas Willis 2006-07-06 09:38:53 UTC]

forgive me if this is report is not satisfactory. I find so few bugs in gentoo that it's hard for me to stay familiar with the process. :)

Anyway, when booting up googleearth you get the nice view of the globs but an image in the center of the screen never comes up. The problem gets worse once you start hitting specific locations And images either don't refresh as you move or incorrect images load.


emerge --info

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli crypt cups dlloader dri dvd eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nvidia opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb xorg xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_nv"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY



other stuff you might want to know
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googleearth beta_4
xorg-x11 7.0-r1
nvidia-glx      1.0.8756
nvidia-kernel   1.0.8756
xfce4           4.2.3.2




xorg.conf
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[Comment 1 Thomas Willis 2006-07-06 09:40:41 UTC]

Created attachment 91055 [details]
screenshot illustrating the problem

a nice representation of the problem I think....

[Comment 2 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2006-07-06 15:24:07 UTC]

Sorry I cannnot reproduce this :(

I do not realy have a way to fix anything in this binary-only app and I do not think this is a gentoo problem, maybe your video hardware? I would suggest you bug the google guys about it.

[Comment 3 Albert Zeyer 2006-09-09 04:03:44 UTC]

I have the same problem here. The textures are not only not refreshing themselves, there are mixed up, too (look at the screenshot).
I have also an AMD64 with an nVidia onboard-card, Xorg 7.1 and using nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774.

Either this is AMD64 related, but I mainly think of a problem with the nVidia-board (it is some of this new AMD64-nVidia-mainboards with an onboard-nVidia-graphics-card) and/or the nvidia-drivers.
Xorg.0.log says, it is a:
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 6100 at PCI:0:5:0
lspci says:
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)

--
Albert

[Comment 4 Albert Zeyer 2006-09-09 04:08:55 UTC]

Created attachment 96463 [details]
Google Earth displaying some nice special effects

The error I described is shown here.