[Solved 17 DEC] Googleearth blues -- 64-bit, Nvidia GTX-480

[dibl]

It's been many months since I ran Googleearth -- last time I needed it, it worked perfectly.  Today, it runs but presents only a black window with no Earth. I don't see a recent discussion on this forum or other debian forums.

I remember this problem from some time back -- it was fixable with nvidia-glx-ia32 ia32-libs-gtk lib32nss-mdns ia32-libs and lib32ncurses5.  So, I made sure I have all those installed, and they are.

Next, I uninstalled Googleearth and used googleearth-package to make a new .deb, and installed that one (6.0.3.xxx).  It runs fine, but there is no change in the video problem.

Who can advise me?  Here is the box:

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System:    Host: imerabox Kernel: 3.5-3.towo-siduction-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.7.1)
          Desktop: KDE 4.8.4 (Qt 4.8.2) Distro: aptosid 2011-02 Ἡμέρα - kde-lite - (201107131633)
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P6X58D-E version: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends version: 0602 date: 03/24/2011
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7 CPU 950 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 33739.2
          Clock Speeds: 1: 4217.406 MHz 2: 4217.406 MHz 3: 4217.406 MHz 4: 4217.406 MHz 5: 4217.406 MHz 6: 4217.406 MHz 7: 4217.406 MHz 8: 4217.406 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GF100 [GeForce GTX 480] bus-ID: 05:00.0
          X.Org: 1.12.3.902 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1200@59.9hz
          GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 480/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.37 Direct Rendering: Yes
Network:   Card: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2 ver: 1.30 port: d800 bus-ID: 06:00.0
          IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 20:cf:30:5c:41:1d
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2136.5GB (2.5% used) 1: model: OCZ
          2: model: OCZ 3: model: KINGSTON_SS100S2 4: model: WDC_WD1002FAEX 5: model: WDC_WD1002FAEX
Info:      Processes: 302 Uptime: 4:17 Memory: 1582.4/5966.4MB Runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.7.1 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.14

Thanks!

[towo]

nvidia-glx-ia32 is a dummy package, it contains nothing.
You need to install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386.

[dibl]

Thanks for that fast reply, towo!
However, I am a confused guy now:

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root@imerabox:/home/don# apt-cache policy libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386
N: Unable to locate package libgl1-nvidia-glx
root@imerabox:/home/don# apt-cache policy libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386
libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386:
 Installed: (none)
 Candidate: (none)
 Version table:
root@imerabox:/home/don# apt-cache policy libgl1-nvidia-glx
libgl1-nvidia-glx:
 Installed: 304.37-1
 Candidate: 304.37-1
 Version table:
*** 304.37-1 0
       500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
       500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    304.37-0 0
       500 http://packages.siduction.org/user/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages


?

[towo]

Why confused?
GE is a 32bit app and need 32bit glx.
nvidia-glx-ia32 dos not help anymore, so you need to enable multiarch.

[dibl]

I am obviously missing something, but what is it?

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root@imerabox:/home/don# apt-cache policy multiarch-support
multiarch-support:
 Installed: 2.13-35
 Candidate: 2.13-35
 Version table:
*** 2.13-35 0
       500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
       500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@imerabox:/home/don# dpkg --print-architecture
amd64
root@imerabox:/home/don# dpkg --add-architecture i386
root@imerabox:/home/don# dpkg --print-architecture
amd64

Edit:  I tried to follow this

[dibl]

Ahhh -- now some progress.

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root@imerabox:/home/don# dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
i386


Thanks towo -- probably I can get through this now.

[dibl]

Upppppps -- I wasn't expecting this, after I installed libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386:



Is that normal?

[towo]

No, is not normal. I would say, libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 is not ready for multiarch. I would fill a bugreport.

[dibl]

OK, thanks towo.  Maybe I will file a bug report.  But this OS is over one year old and was converted from aptosid.  It may not be a great example of "stock" Debian sid, at this point.  I appreciate your advice -- thanks!

[dibl]

Filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686033

[ayla]

Hi dibl,

your link to the screenshot in your bug report gives a 404 error back to me.

greets ayla

[dibl]

Yeah, I saw that.  Probably I should not have tried that -- it is the same link as the screenshot in the post 5 posts up.  I think the BTS mail handler changed the code somehow.

[dibl]

Update -- @towo you were correct, as usual.  The culprit is the libxvmc package:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640499

[vilde]

Today, it runs but presents only a black window with no Earth

Maybe the earth really is gone and we are living in a big illusion?

(sorry for this but I couldn't resist )

[dibl]

Maybe the earth really is gone and we are living in a big illusion?

(sorry for this but I couldn't resist )

Ya, that sounds like Swedish philosophy to me.   :lol: