Google earth has black squares in many views.

[William Unruh]

I am have a problem with google earth-- and maps.google.earth both in
streetview and in the earth view. As a scan or zoom in or move, big
black pieces (streight sided, 4 sides, but sides not parallel,
sometimes more sides and odd shapes)
are taken out of the views. They change as I change the scan,

[Doug Laidlaw]

William Unruh <un...@invalid.ca> Wrote in message:

Looked around Mga forum. The only suggestion there was to
make sure you installed the right package for your
architecture.
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[askfor]

Google Earth seems to be a 32-bit application only. Perhaps some of
the 32 bit libraries are missing on your system.

[Caver1]

There is a 64 bit Google Earth.. Works fine.

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Caver1

[askfor]

>
> There is a 64 bit Google Earth.. Works fine.
>

Indeed. I didn't know.

[Jim Beard]

On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 06:43:13 -0500, Caver1 wrote:

> There is a 64 bit Google Earth.. Works fine.

The Mageia page on google-earth says it is a 32-bit application kluged to
run on a pure-64-bit system. It brings with it its own libraries and
other stuff needed, that is often out of date or out of sync with the
Mageia counterparts, and that is alleged to sometimes cause problems.

Has that changed?

Cheers!

jim b.

--
UNIX is not user-unfriendly; it merely
expects users to be computer-friendly.

[Caver1]

On 11/09/2015 12:19 PM, Jim Beard wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 06:43:13 -0500, Caver1 wrote:
>
>> There is a 64 bit Google Earth.. Works fine.
>
> The Mageia page on google-earth says it is a 32-bit application kluged to
> run on a pure-64-bit system. It brings with it its own libraries and
> other stuff needed, that is often out of date or out of sync with the
> Mageia counterparts, and that is alleged to sometimes cause problems.
>
> Has that changed?
>
> Cheers!
>
> jim b.
>

I run Ubuntu and went to Google's GoogleEarth Downlaod site
and downloaded the 64bit version and installed it.

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Caver1

[TJ]

On 11/09/2015 12:19 PM, Jim Beard wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 06:43:13 -0500, Caver1 wrote:
>
>> There is a 64 bit Google Earth.. Works fine.
>
> The Mageia page on google-earth says it is a 32-bit application kluged to
> run on a pure-64-bit system. It brings with it its own libraries and
> other stuff needed, that is often out of date or out of sync with the
> Mageia counterparts, and that is alleged to sometimes cause problems.
>
> Has that changed?
>

It might have. I downloaded and installed a 64-bit rpm from Google on a
new 64-bit install of Mageia 5 about 2 weeks ago. It's Build 7.1.4.1529,
dated March 30, 2015. Seems to be working just fine. Of course, I do
have the Mageia 32-bit repositories active, so it may have installed
packages from them instead of the 64-bit ones to make it work.

As long as it works, I'm OK with that.

TJ

[TJ]

This page from ArchLinux seems to indicate your problem may be a corrupt
cache:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Google_Earth

The "fix" is to remove it so it can be re-created.

TJ

[TJ]

A Google search reports several distro pages that say essentially the
same thing as the Mageia page. So, I guess it hasn't changed, after all.

TJ

[William Unruh]

Is the engine that displays "Earth" and streetview from maps.google.com in the browser
(Chrome in my case) the same as in googleearth, or is it different? As I
mentioned my main problem seems to be in maps.google.com ratehr than in
googleearth itself.

[Ar]

On 09/11/15 11:43, Caver1 wrote:
>> Google Earth seems to be a 32-bit application only. Perhaps some of
>> the 32 bit libraries are missing on your system.
>>
>
> There is a 64 bit Google Earth.. Works fine.
>

The latest 64 bit version DOES NOT run fine, in fact, it doesn't even
run. It crashes just after the splash screen. It's well documented
problem, and I've given up trying to get it to work, due to how much is
suggested on forums to get that one application to work.

Using older version, but is more crippled.

[Caver1]

I'm using;

Google Earth
7.1.4.1529
Build Date
3/30/2015

The newest that you can download and am having no problems.

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Caver1

[Ar]

On 10/11/15 12:57, Caver1 wrote:
>
> I'm using;
>
> Google Earth
> 7.1.4.1529
> Build Date
> 3/30/2015

As there's been a very recent kernel update, I just tried installation
again as you said it works, now Google Earth works.

It's strange because for at least three previous kernel versions, it
didn't work for me. Maybe some small thing got changed in one of the
drivers. Who knows.

[William Unruh]

On 2015-11-10, Ar <A...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> On 09/11/15 11:43, Caver1 wrote:
>>> Google Earth seems to be a 32-bit application only. Perhaps some of
>>> the 32 bit libraries are missing on your system.
>>>
>>
>> There is a 64 bit Google Earth.. Works fine.
>>
>
> The latest 64 bit version DOES NOT run fine, in fact, it doesn't even

What does "latest" mean? I have 7.14.1529 64 bit and it seems to be
working (Intel
graphics). Is your bad one later?

[William Unruh]

I have changed the title of this thread since I was mistaken about where
the problem lies. It is in google chrome with google maps.

I just installed google-chrome-stable-i386 version 46.0.2490.86. on my
x86_64 version of Mageia 5. google maps works only in the Lite version.
But street view does not have those horrid black areas .

I also installed google-chrome-stable-x86_64 and it still has those
black rectanbles on street view, but it does not seem to have them on
the earth view.

So I either have to use the 32 bit version, with who knows what problems
because it is running on a 64 bit system, or use the 64 bit version and
get all that graphics distortion.

No idea why the 32 bit version is suddenly using the Lite version. I am
using the latest chrome, and my intel 82G35 Express Integrated Graphics
Controller does not seem to be one of the ones that chrome does not
support.

Weird