[ltp] OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/13/06, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 15:26:17 +0100, Richard wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>X Window System Version 7.0.0
> > >>Release Date: 21 December 2005
> > >>
> > >>So I should be able to make this work!
> > >>Now how do I do that?
> > >>Maybe Thinkwiki?
> > >>Any pointers?
> > >
> > >Install a kernel with Savage DRI and AGP support, install the Mesa DRI
> > >drivers for XOrg (libgl1-mesa-dri in Debianish distributions).
> > >
> > >http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting gives some general
> > >hints.
> >
> >
> > My understanding was that Mesa was a software
> > implemantation of OpenGL, to be used as a fallback. At least on an X22,
> > the key step to getting 3D working was to *remove* (part of) Mesa!
>
> That's a big misunderstanding shared by many people. Mesa is just an
> open source OpenGL implementation, which had only software rendering
> support in the beginning. But this changed years ago.

Mesa can be built as either a standalone OpenGL lib or as the software
backend for DRI drivers depending on how you build it.

Alex

>
> Regards,
> Tino