topic title: Fix Google Earth "dri" error.
Posts: 19
sleekmason
Joined: 08 Jul 2008
#1
I recently installed Google Earth and ran into :

Fatal error in __driConfigOptions line 1, column 0: unknown encoding.
Google Earth has caught signal 6.

In order to find out the error, just type

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googleearth
into a terminal. Any errors will be shown.

The solution I have appears to be okay, and Google Earth works now on my system. That being said, use at your own risk.

Open up a terminal
su to root
then:

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cd /usr/lib/googleearth/
then:

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wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 -O libGL.so.1
After this, googleearth should start just fine. I do notice however, that it takes 10-15 seconds for the earth to initially show up.

Also, If somebody else tries this fix, please post your results.

regards, sleekmason

See below for my laptop specs. Nothing unusual.

Here are my specs running AntiX 8.5 on a Dell studio 17" heavy bastard laptop: (thats what they should have named it;)
inxi -G:

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Graphics:  Card Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1440x900@60.1hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express Chipset GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1
inxi:

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CPU[-Dual core Pentium T4300 (-MCP-) clocked at 1200.000 Mhz-] Kernel[-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686-] Up[-3:40-] Mem[-195.9/1984.7MB-] HDD[-160.0GB(7.0% used)-] Procs[-115-] Client[-Shell-] inxi[-1.4.12-]