screen garbled in Google earth

How did you install it?
Do you use desktop effects?

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

Hi

Any time there is a problem with multimedia i tend to find that working through the Medibuntu worksheet solves it
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

When you installed google-earth did you install it from the repositories or from the google-earth website? Generally it is better to try to find stuff in the repos before looking elsewhere as things get tested and tweaked for Ubuntu in there.

When you are booting into Ubuntu do you get a menu with lots of options for booting into Ubuntu along with other choices such as "Memtest" and things? If so the 2nd Ubuntu option should have "recovery mode" near the end of it's line. "Failsafe X" should get you into your normal user account. I think i would do that to uninstall google-earth and then use Synaptic Package Manager to install the one from the repos
System - Administration - Synaptic

512Mb ram is not really enough to run Ubuntu so i would consider dropping to the Xubuntu desktop environment when using something quite heavy such as google earth. To install it into your existing Ubuntu try this on the command-line

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

and then at your next login at the login screen choose "Options" and then select something like "Xfce with Ubuntu" or "Xfce with Xubuntu". It is the Xfce that is set-up with Xubuntu that makes a lot of the difference.

It might be worth waiting to see if anyone else comments on my answer before rushing ahead with it tho!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Hope this helps:

bob@bob-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C display
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f8000000-fbffffff(prefetchable) memory:f4000000-f407ffff

Thanks,
Bob

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From: actionparsnip <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #114923]: screen garbled in Google earth
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Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 11:07 AM

Your question #114923 on Ubuntu changed:
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How did you install it?
Do you use desktop effects?

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

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May help:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+question/92056

from my original question:

"Now on startup I encounter the Ubuntu word comes up to the right of center (centered is the normal position of "Ubuntu") and "lockup" appears on a black screen and I'm put back at login screen. I can login ok with the 2nd user I had set up previously. I can log in using Gnome one time and Gnome (is it protected?) the next."

I got rid of GoogleEarth. Now the only problem is logging in. This is a more accurate startup problem description: "Ubuntu" word comes up centered. I click on my name to log in and enter my password and hit enter. The word "Ubuntu" is displayed but to the right of center. Then the black terminal screen comes up with "lockup" as part of a message then I'm put back at the login screen.

Before this happened I tried to adjust screen resolution lower. that didn't help. I had earlier set all fonts bigger in system-preferences-appearance so I could read print. I set the fonts back.

I can log in as the 2nd user without any problems.

On the startup problem: I ran Ubuntu from the install CD (live) and checked what the default screen res was (1600x1200), booted in recovery mode, set screen res and rebooted. Voila - it boots again. I will try to find Google Earth in the Ubuntu repository and see how that goes.

Thanks for the help,
Bob

Hi

Wow!! Congrats! :)) Nicely done. If you went through the Medibuntu page to add in the medibuntu repositories then a search in Synaptic Package Manager should find google earth quite quickly
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

I am not entirely sure how you fixed it but the LiveCd can often be useful
Congrats and regards from
Tom :)