As I asked earlier, what happens when you run "glxinfo|grep render"? That will tell you whether there is an OpenGL driver for your graphics card installed. Mind you, what model of graphics hardware do you have, I take it it's an old machine?
Edit: For example when I run it on my reasonably modern machine with built-in Intel I get the following, yrlling me that hardware direct rendering is available.

Here is that output, after the last time I ran it and had those errors and fixed them I didn't run it again. I'm afraid that I have no real idea what it is telling me? Thanks

glxinfo|grep renderdirect rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8400 GS/PCIe/SSE2
GL_NVX_conditional_render, GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info,
GL_NV_ES1_1_compatibility, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render,
GL_NV_path_rendering, GL_NV_pixel_data_range, GL_NV_point_sprite,
GL_NVX_conditional_render, GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info,
GL_NV_ES1_1_compatibility, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render,
GL_NV_path_rendering, GL_NV_pixel_data_range, GL_NV_point_sprite,

You're welcome again, at least it works, I guess.

Regards...

That tells you that you've an older card running the open-source driver which may not have 3D rendering -- that would explain things as you are having to use your CPU to render Google Earth, hence the "safe mode". At least it's working, I suppose.

Hi all...

Installing the Nvidia proprietary driver might resolve the entire issue.

Regards...

I'm not sure that it's a available any more for a card of this vintage, however, the nouveau driver might be worth a shot as I think it's currently running the plain nv driver. That said, I don't recall whether Google Eearth explicitly demands the proprietary driver or not.

Hi...

It should be, I have version 304 running on my Dell Inspiron 531s, which is using an older chip, a GeForce 6150SE....

I've not seen any requirements like that, either.

Regards...

I don't see the 304 driver in the Debian (I'm taking it you run it on Lubuntu) repositories, how did you install it? If it's possible to install then, yes, good call.


I'm sure I've seen a stanza in drivers.ini which seems to suggest that nvidia is explicitly looked for as a driver before enabling certain functions.

I am using the nvidia 340.96 driver from the nvidia website, what else should I do? Yes it is an older desktop but it is what I have. Running Mint 17.3 and it does a good job for me.

I may have misread your results then -- I'll boot my desktop when I get home to confirm.
I must have been half asleep when I read the output posted though...

Actually, no, we use Ubuntu's repositories. I installed it using Synaptic.

Regards...

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Interesting. If you would, please open a terminal and post the results of...

Thanks!

Ok here it is ardvark71. I have been experimenting with various places in my list and what I have found is that the place I have been trying to get the street view is where it doesn't work! If I go to other places it seems to work just fine not using safe mode? I have attached a file as an example.




02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] [10de:06e4] (rev a1)
Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:05cc]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Module Size Used by
pci_stub 16384 1
vboxpci 24576 0
vboxnetadp 28672 0
vboxnetflt 28672 0
vboxdrv 450560 3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci
vmnet 53248 13
vmw_vsock_vmci_transport 32768 0
vsock 36864 1 vmw_vsock_vmci_transport
vmw_vmci 65536 1 vmw_vsock_vmci_transport
vmmon 90112 0
bnep 20480 2
rfcomm 69632 0
bluetooth 491520 10 bnep,rfcomm
binfmt_misc 20480 1
nfsd 294912 11
auth_rpcgss 61440 1 nfsd
nfs_acl 16384 1 nfsd
nfs 245760 0
lockd 94208 2 nfs,nfsd
grace 16384 2 nfsd,lockd
sunrpc 323584 18 nfs,nfsd,auth_rpcgss,lockd,nfs_acl
fscache 65536 1 nfs
nvidia 10567680 50
joydev 20480 0
snd_hda_codec_via 32768 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 69632 1 snd_hda_codec_via
hid_logitech_hidpp 20480 0
snd_hda_intel 36864 3
snd_hda_controller 32768 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec 143360 4 snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_hwdep 20480 1 snd_hda_codec
dm_multipath 24576 0
scsi_dh 16384 1 dm_multipath
snd_pcm 106496 3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_seq_midi 16384 0
snd_seq_midi_event 16384 1 snd_seq_midi
kvm_amd 61440 0
snd_rawmidi 32768 1 snd_seq_midi
kvm 479232 1 kvm_amd
snd_seq 65536 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
k10temp 16384 0
serio_raw 16384 0
edac_core 53248 0
edac_mce_amd 24576 0
snd_seq_device 16384 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer 32768 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
drm 344064 4 nvidia
shpchp 40960 0
snd 86016 16 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_code c,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
soundcore 16384 2 snd,snd_hda_codec
i2c_nforce2 16384 0
8250_fintek 16384 0
mac_hid 16384 0
parport_pc 32768 1
ppdev 20480 0
lp 20480 0
parport 45056 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
dm_mirror 24576 0
dm_region_hash 24576 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 20480 2 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
hid_logitech_dj 20480 0
usbhid 53248 0
hid 110592 3 usbhid,hid_logitech_dj,hid_logitech_hidpp
pata_acpi 16384 0
psmouse 114688 0
forcedeth 69632 0
sata_nv 28672 5
pata_amd 20480 0

Hmm, I don't see any files attached. So it doesn't work at all in street mode using safe mode?

Also, thank you for posting the results.

Regards...

Odd, I suppose Canonical must keep older drivers around than Debian does.