Google Earth for Linux works on FreeBSD

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Wed Jun 14 18:33:11 UTC 2006


	I'd like to add my name of the list of people having problems.
	1) Environment:

huff at jerusalem>> uname -v
FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Mar 13 09:23:39 EST 2006     huff at jerusalem.litteratus.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JERUSALEM 


	2) I followed these instructions:

>  > Maybe you want to give the fc4 one a try (since it is withhin the  
>  > range of supported distributions listed in the google earth  
>  > requirements). To do this you have to add
>  >    OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=fc4
>  > to /etc/make.conf and replace "linux-XFree86-libs" with  
>  > "linux-xorg-libs" in ports/Mk/bsd.port/mk. After this you can update  
>  > with:
>  >    portupgrade -f -o emulators/linux_base-fc4 linux_base
>  >    portupgrade -f -o x11/linux-xorg-libs linux-XFree86-libs

	and got this:

huff at jerusalem>> dir /var/db/pkg | grep linux
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:10 linux-atk-1.8.0_2
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:10 linux-esound-0.2.35_1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:34 linux-expat-1.95.7_1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:34 linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_4
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:10 linux-glib2-2.4.8_2
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:33 linux-gtk2-2.4.14_4
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:10 linux-jpeg-6b.33_1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:10 linux-libaudiofile-0.2.6_1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:33 linux-pango-1.6.0_2
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:10 linux-png-1.2.8_1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:33 linux-realplayer-10.0.7.785.20060201
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:33 linux-sdl-1.2.5_2
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:33 linux-sdl_image-1.2.4
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:10 linux-tiff-3.6.1_6
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 10:34 linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_3
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 12:31 linux_base-fc-4_1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun 14 11:21 linux_dri-4.4.0
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jun  9 18:18 linuxpluginwrapper-20051113
drwxr-xr-x    2 root  wheel       512 Jan 24 11:30 linuxthreads-2.2.3_20

	3)  However, when I start googleearth I get the "Login status"
and "'OpenGL' mode not supported" windows.
	Once I get rid of the "Login status" window ... none of the
presented choices seemto apply.  I'm running in 32-bit color, and
(as far as I know have no other 3d programs running).  Trying
DirectX produces a crash (dump available on request); and
exit-wait-restart has no effect.

	Have I missed something here?


				Robert Huff




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