Bug 32220

Summary:	nouveau and google-earth-pro
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Mészáros Csaba <csablak>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	csablak, fri, lewyssmith
Version:	9
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	googleerath screenshot with nouveau

Description Mészáros Csaba 2023-08-31 17:57:57 CEST

I know it's not part of Mageia, but I don't think google-earth is a problem.

I start the google-earth-pro program with the Nouveau driver, and I can only see the detail of the globe and the sky in the right place in a small window of 4x3cm. Maybe I should attach a picture. Unusable.

Actually, it is the same even if I create the libcrypto and libssl symlinks. However, it starts without it. As for the search, a little intervention is needed there. I solved this back in Mageia 5, because it never zoomed to what I typed.

Insert the line "export LC_NUMERIC=C" in the command file/opt/google/earth/pro/googleearth  without quotes.

Comment 1 Mészáros Csaba 2023-08-31 18:01:17 CEST

Created attachment 13960 [details]
googleerath screenshot with nouveau

CC: (none) => csablak

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2023-08-31 20:53:35 CEST

Thank you for the report, and the helpful screenshot.
1. Are you able to say whether this problem occurs only with Nouveau? Are you able to try an nvidia driver?
2. Does the fix you give above cure the problem?
3. Did it work for you with Nouveau on Mageia 8?

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 3 Mészáros Csaba 2023-08-31 22:54:09 CEST

Google Earth - Zoom problem - https://youtu.be/1OFM0XWZm6Q
Google Earth - nouveau error - https://youtu.be/GzcKQKbEHco

Comment 4 Morgan Leijström 2023-09-04 09:41:05 CEST

Thank you for the report and tip.

Maybe we should add it to https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Google_Earth

For your system, does the driver xorg modesetting work as an alternative?

CC: (none) => fri

Comment 5 Lewis Smith 2023-09-05 22:04:14 CEST

And please do answer:
2. Does the fix you give above [comment 0] cure the problem?
3. Did it work for you with Nouveau on Mageia 8?

(In reply to Mészáros Csaba from comment #3)
> Google Earth - Zoom problem - https://youtu.be/1OFM0XWZm6Q
> Google Earth - nouveau error - https://youtu.be/GzcKQKbEHco
These look ideal, and I second "we should add it to" the GoggleEarth Wiki.
Neither of these has sound (not for me, and I checked with a different YouTube video), and I found it impossible to see what was being typed on the terminal. If anyone *can* decipher what is happening, please transcribe it to this bug, whence we can document it better.

TIA

Comment 6 Mészáros Csaba 2023-09-06 20:15:18 CEST

Hello Louis!

I thought you were watching the video on a PC, because then you should be able to see what's happening on the terminal, or even stop the video where you don't know what's going on... :)
If you're asking about the first terminal on the left, don't bother with that. I started the script enabling video recording on it.
Zoom issue mageia8 - demo with nvidia-xfce.
The nouveau works as you can see in the video. On a small 4x3cm frame, the upper left.
Regards: Csaba

Comment 7 Lewis Smith 2023-09-06 21:36:31 CEST

I did watch the video on a PC 1366x768 fullscreen. It is just that the terminal lines are too indistinct (small & blurred) to see properly.

Comment 8 Mészáros Csaba 2023-09-10 21:22:27 CEST

I tried something that I had not known before.

I removed all references to nouveau from the /etc/default/grub file. So it doesn't have GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=nouveau.modeset=1

and I created the xorg.conf.d/modesetting.ini file corresponding to xorg.conf, and entered the word modesetting in it as driver.

modesetting.ini

Section "Devices"
     Identifier "Videocard0"
     VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
     BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce GT710"
     Driver "mode setting"
     Option "DPMS"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
     Identifier "Screen0"
     Device "Videocard0"
     Monitor "Monitor0"
     Subsection "Display"
         Depth 24
     EndSubsection
EndSection



then i restarted the system. And wonders of wonders, Google Earth works. Although you have to leave the windows pretty sticky. So they don't bounce, they aren't fast.

And I found  something like Latest legacy driver (alias of Geforce 635 to 920) in the mcc. To what extent is this different from the driver with the same name listed anyway?

My card Geforce GT710 (NV106 - GK208B)