CentOS - Aug 2008 - OT: Google Earth, v.4.3.7284.3916 (beta) on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) (SOLVED)

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at
gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at
gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:48 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists
at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> The version of Google Earth I installed last December was
working
>>>> great this morning. Then, I decided to update to the latest
version
>>>> and when I tried to do that with yum, I didn't have the
right name for
>>>> the package (now, I think it may be "google-earth"),
so I downloaded
>>>> the file (GoogleEarthLinux.bin) and installed with "sh
>>>> GoogleEarthLinux.bin"    The latest version is now
installed and I can
>>>> launch it, without any problem,  but, it does not seem to
>>>> work.........   :-)
>>
>>> Where did you get this?
>>
>> Mark: I got it from google.com   I have google among my yum
>> repositories, but I couldn't remember what the package was called,
so
>> I
>> couldn't  "yum update" and I downloaded and installed
their file, but
>> it won't go. It isn't getting any date from the Google Earth
servers.
>> That
>> worked perfectly, with the older version I had been using. Lanny
>>
>
> I tried to install google-earth with yum but either that isn't the
> name of the package or it is not available in the Google repository.
> Then, I did some reading on the Google site. Question: How do I
> determine whether or not the CPU in this box (I think it's an Intel
> Celeron 2.6 GHz) supports SSE2 or not? I suspect the CPU does *not*
> support SSE2.   Posting some information below:
>
>>Hi Folks,
>
>>After taking a peek and looking at some of the issues in this thread:
>
>>http://groups.google.com/group/earth-linux/browse_thread/thread/b2a5e...
>
>>I thought you guys deserved an update. The long and short of it is
>>that Google Earth 4.3 only works in Linux on machines with processors
>>that support SSE2. This means a P4, A64, or greater is now required. I
>>too was sad to see my little Athlon XP-M machine unable to run 4.3
>>with all of it's beautiful sunlight and atmosphere effects.
>
>>However, I'd like to let you know that we're aware of this and
we're
>>looking into getting 4.2 available for you folks!
>
>>Thanks for your patience,
>>ERR
<snip>

SOLVED. I went back to the previous version of Google Earth for Linux.
It must be that the Celeron CPU does *not* support SSE2. Previous
version works great.      :-)

Google Earth
4.2.0205.5730
Build Date
Nov 13 2007
Build Time
17:50:46
Renderer
OpenGL
Operating System
Linux (2.6.18.1)
Video Driver
Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Max Texture Size
2048x2048
Server
kh.google.com
User