google-earth

[Juergen Lock]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:28:59PM +0300, Ivan Klymenko wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:21:26 +0200 (CEST)
> Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:
> 
> >  Anyway, I just had to go back to the previous google earth version
> > for the port because the latest one only crashed for me right at
> > startup, I'd be interested if it works for anyone of you, here
> > is a shar:
> > 
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/google-earth-5.2.1.1547/google-earth-5.2.1.1547.shar
> > 
> > (please include details about at least your FreeBSD version,
> > installed ports, graphics hw, and graphics drivers if you test it.)
> > 
> 
> Works for me.

Ah, intersting, thanx for testing!  Anyone tried it on a r6xx/r7xx
(radeon hd 3xxx, hd 4xxx) or entirely without gl like in a vm?

> Heavily loads the system...
> 
> Maybe somehow reduce the number of threads?
> 
 I guess that'd be a question for google. :)  (tho reducing number
of threads is kinda unlikely to improve performance...)

> ps ax | grep googleearth-bin
>  5518  ??  RN     0:31,77 ./googleearth-bin
>  5520  ??  SN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5526  ??  SN     0:01,70 ./googleearth-bin
>  5530  ??  SN     0:00,07 ./googleearth-bin
>  5535  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5536  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5538  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5539  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5540  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5541  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5542  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5543  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5544  ??  SN     0:00,07 ./googleearth-bin
>  5545  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5546  ??  IN     0:00,02 ./googleearth-bin
>  5547  ??  IN     0:00,03 ./googleearth-bin
>  5548  ??  IN     0:00,03 ./googleearth-bin
>  5549  ??  IN     0:00,02 ./googleearth-bin
>  5550  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5569  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5570  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5589  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5603  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5604  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5605  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5606  ??  IN     0:00,01 ./googleearth-bin
>  5607  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
>  5608  ??  IN     0:00,00 ./googleearth-bin
> 
> 
> 
> uname -a
> FreeBSD nonamehost 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Aug 13
> 17:05:14 EEST 2010     ivan at nonamehost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mk9  amd64
> 
> 
> linux-dri-7.4_1     Mesa-based DRI libraries, drivers and binaries (Linux Ubunt
> linux-f10-alsa-lib-1.0.21_1 The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture libraries (Linux Fedo
> linux-f10-atk-1.24.0 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-cairo-1.8.0_1 Vector graphics library Cairo (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-expat-2.0.1 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library (Linux 
> linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows (Linux Fe
> linux-f10-gtk2-2.14.7_2 GTK+ library, version 2.X (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-jpeg-6b   RPM of the JPEG lib (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-libsigc++20-2.2.2 Callback Framework for C++ (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-libssh2-0.18 The library implementing the SSH2 protocol (Linux Fedora 10
> linux-f10-nspr-4.7.6 Netscape Portable Runtime (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-nss-3.12.2.0 Network Security Services (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-openldap-2.4.12_1 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol libraries (Linux Fedo
> linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g The OpenSSL toolkit (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-pango-1.22.3_1 The pango library (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-png-1.2.37_1 RPM of the PNG lib (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-tiff-3.8.2 The TIFF library, Linux/i386 binary (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-xorg-libs-7.4_1 Xorg libraries (Linux Fedora 10)
> 
> 
> nvidia-driver-256.44 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren
> 
> vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:	class=0x030000 card=0x02271028 chip=0x042710de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>     device     = 'Geforce 8400M GS (unknown)'
>     class      = display
>     subclass   = VGA