On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, Claude Jones wrote:
Dan Walsh's suggestions took care of the Selinux problem. The second problem had to do with running x64 - Google is aware of the issue and this page goes into it:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/earth/thread?tid=314c37c5 83d3ba62&hl=en
Some have gotten successful performance by installing the 32-bit xorg-x11-drv 32 bit libs for their video card. In my case, installing the 32-bit libs finally allowed GoogleEarth to open, but the performance was hyper-sluggish and unusable and the program eventually just froze - on my system, I'm running the proprietary nVidia 195.36.31 driver with a G72 [GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS] (rev a1) video card (not too dissimilar to setups that folks claimed sucess with on the above page)
The performance problem solved itself. I can't say whether it was a reboot, or some updates, because both of these took place after I'd encountered the problem and then saw resolution. But, GoogleEarth works perfectly now.