For some unknown reason the google earth for linux on mine not showing any image after the last update. It just shows a blank white box. I maybe mistaken, and not trying on other vgacard, but I think this should only take effects on non 3D driver vga card only. Maybe this related to libGL use by google earth itself who included in the original package.
Finding the solution over google and came to some german user who wrote some tricks by deleting the library over google earth.
cd /usr/lib/googleearth
rm -f lib{crypto.so.*,Qt*,GLU.so.*,curl.so.*,gcc_s.so.*,stdc++.so.*,z.so.*}
rm -rf plugins
rm -f qt.conf
Restart the computer … and voila … the globe were back in solid.
I forgot to save the poster site address, but credits goes to him. Thanks 🙂