13 Jun
2006
13 Jun
'06
1 p.m.
Hello,
Google Earth vient de publier sa toute nouvelle version 4 (beta)
et celle-ci est également disponible pour l'OS LINUX, ce
qui me semble une très bonne chose (ils ont compris
que de plus en plus de gens utilisent Linux).
Si seulement tous les soft étaient publiés pour tous les OS,
ce serait bien...
Voir à ce sujet:
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http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
Malheureusement, ils ne fournissent aucune information
quant à l'installation à faire (pour les novices, ce serait
quand même pas mal), mais c'est pas compliqué:
Après le download du fichier "GoogleEarthLinux.bin", qui fait
16,2 mb, rendre celui-ci exécutable (executable) et l'exécuter
comme un script. Suivre alors les instructions données.
J'ai testé avec SUSE 10.1., l'installation est très facile et
le software semble fonctionner comme prévu. Enfin un programme
qui s'installe aisément.
Reste à savoir encore quelles données voulues ou non voulues
sont transmises à Google lors d'une recherche d'une localité
ou autre, lors du streaming (parfois lent, mais ce sont
des données volumineuses qui sont transmises) avant l'affichage complet
de la carte. Aux spécialistes du club de le dévoiler....
Bonne découverte planétaire quand même,
meilleures salutations,
--
Yves Schintgen <sevy(a)vo.lu>
13 Jun
13 Jun
2:09 p.m.
Hi Yves,
Thanks for the link !
And this time, it even seems to be a native linux app.....unlike
their "picasa" app which uses wine :-)
Google Earth vient de publier sa toute nouvelle
version 4 (beta)
et celle-ci est également disponible pour l'OS LINUX, ce
qui me semble une très bonne chose (ils ont compris
que de plus en plus de gens utilisent Linux).
Si seulement tous les soft étaient publiés pour tous les OS,
ce serait bien...
--
regards,
Georges Toth
2:27 p.m.
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:00:21PM +0200, Yves Schintgen wrote:
Google Earth vient de publier sa toute nouvelle
version 4 (beta)
et celle-ci est également disponible pour l'OS LINUX, ce
qui me semble une très bonne chose (ils ont compris
que de plus en plus de gens utilisent Linux).
Despite the joy this Linux support by Google merits, let's remind
people that this is beta software.
I did test on my laptop, which runs Kubuntu 6.06 and features an
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 with the ati driver (not the proprietary
one).
The result was less than satisfying for me: going fullscreen during
an animation, I had quite some pixel garbage on the screen, and after
just a bit more playing, my X session just froze - access via ssh
stayed possible, but I ended up having to reboot, with no chance of
restarting the X session (kills didn't work out).
A colleague in the office also had trouble on his laptop, while his
desktop worked well enough (don't know which graphics hardware is in
there).
I'll try again @home on my desktop (Debian testing, NVidia card and
proprietary driver).
Maybe we could list which combinations of graphics adapters and drivers
work well?
Greetings, Eric
2:50 p.m.
Hey Eric,
Despite the joy this Linux support by Google merits,
let's remind
people that this is beta software.
Eventhough it works GREAT :-)
I did test on my laptop, which runs Kubuntu 6.06 and
features an
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 with the ati driver (not the proprietary
one).
The result was less than satisfying for me: going fullscreen during
an animation, I had quite some pixel garbage on the screen, and after
just a bit more playing, my X session just froze - access via ssh
stayed possible, but I ended up having to reboot, with no chance of
restarting the X session (kills didn't work out).
It would have maybe better worked with the proprietary driver.... anyway, they
recommend recent hardware in order to have a decent experience.
I've tested it on my desktop with all settings set to max...and no problems
here.
I got an amd64 3500 and a nvidia gforce 6600 (using propr. drivers).
--
regards,
Georges Toth
4:49 p.m.
Hi again,
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:50:57PM +0200, Georges Toth wrote:
Hey Eric,
That depends, obviously ;-)
[ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 / free ati driver -> freeze X11]
Despite the joy this Linux support by Google
merits, let's remind
people that this is beta software.
Eventhough it works GREAT :-) It would have maybe better worked with the proprietary
driver.... anyway, they
recommend recent hardware in order to have a decent experience.
Well, this would be the first application I'd need those for, I'm not
yet convinced I want to try the non-free driver, especially as they are
not known for stability.
I've tested it on my desktop with all settings
set to max...and no problems
here.
I got an amd64 3500 and a nvidia gforce 6600 (using propr. drivers).
Ok, I just tested here on an NVidia GeForce4 MX with the nv driver,
Google Earth finds only software OpenGL. Google Earth does run here
without a crash, but feels very slow (Athlon 800, 768MB RAM).
A complaint I have is the rather small font settings, I didn't yet find
where to correct that. The contents of "places" improves when I change
"global" settings in KDE, but not the menu texts. Also, whenever I try
typing sth in, many characters are doubled, or keystrokes go missing.
I'll try later, after reinstalling the proprietary driver - I didn't do
it after "baking" a new kernel lately, so...
Well, it's a beta... but I do hope for improvements ;-)
Greetings, Eric
9:05 p.m.
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
Despite the joy this Linux support by Google merits,
let's remind
people that this is beta software.
I did test on my laptop, which runs Kubuntu 6.06 and features an
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 with the ati driver (not the proprietary
one).
The result was less than satisfying for me: going fullscreen during
an animation, I had quite some pixel garbage on the screen, and after
just a bit more playing, my X session just froze - access via ssh
stayed possible, but I ended up having to reboot, with no chance of
restarting the X session (kills didn't work out).
I've just finished building a Slackware package and it works well on a
10.2-stable system, even though I have a very lousy graphics card (SiS 65x).
-pu
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