Re: Porting Garmin Software to Linux



On Jan 25, 11:48 am, d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
m...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Generally, I compile the programs. Maybe I've got a bad habit, but
there are often useful things to select in the configuration.That seems like such a waste of time.
I am afraid of introducing bugs, actually exposing bugs, by using
different/newer compilation than what had been tested by the distributor.

If there is no binary distribution, I often find that my compile isn't
clean, requiring packages that I don't have, or something else.

I don't want to reprogram or debug it, I just want to install it.

I tried the google earth linux on my suse 10.2, and it crashed the PC.I might suspect your video driver. I have had crashes on a laptop where
there is no firmware update available for my private-branded adapter, although
there is one for the non-private equivalent, that I can't load.

My newest machine doesn't pick up an identification of the video card with
RedHat ES4, so Google Earth runs in an emulation mode.

The googleearth README.linux has some words about Nvidia crashes, libc, and
other video drivers, mentioning ATI.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5

I have an ATI card, so perhaps that is it. I don't know much about
Linux under the hood, but I thought everything in linux runs in
protected memory, so I don't see how a program can crash the system.

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