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Renan Birck

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 401

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Google Earth takes ages to start

Hello and sorry if this isn't the most correct forum for this message.

I installed Google Earth from AUR, but unfortunately it takes ages (2+ minutes) to start. On running it with strace, I get stuff like this:

...
writev(9, [{"1\4\16\0\377\377-\0-*-Bitstream Cyberbit-*-*"..., 56}], 1) = 56
writev(9, [{"1\4\16\0\377\377.\0-*-Bitstream Vera Sans-*-"..., 56}], 1) = 56
writev(9, [{"1\4\17\0\377\3773\0-*-Bitstream Vera Sans Mo"..., 60}], 1) = 60
writev(9, [{"1\4\16\0\377\377/\0-*-Bitstream Vera Serif-*"..., 56}], 1) = 56
...

Which I recognize as being font names. Seems that, for some reason, it is trying to read a list of ALL fonts installed on the system, considering I have a lot this takes ages.

Any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks.

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Xinix

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Registered: 2008-03-14

Posts: 83

Re: Google Earth takes ages to start

couple of possible fixes:
- disable the sky view in GE (I think that is what it is called)
- change the acceleration method from EXA to XAA in xorg.conf

Isn't there any more output when you start in a console?

Renan Birck

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 401

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Re: Google Earth takes ages to start

Nope, there isn't.

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btartsa

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Registered: 2004-07-26

Posts: 222

Re: Google Earth takes ages to start

It's a longshot but if you re using the open source ATI driver look here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=54200

Good luck!