Starting Google Earth 5.1 following message received:
Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic.
[intel_init_bufmgr:500] Error initializing buffer manager.
brwCreateContext: failed to init intel context
Google Earth has caught signal 11.
We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written
to this text file:
/home/tc/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4ab0296a.txt
Please include this file if you submit a bug report will to Google.
tc@box:~$
On ATI based video card it works fine.
System is TC 2.3.1 & Xorg with Intel graphics hardware. It looks like an Xorg Intel driver bug.