[ltp] OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/13/06, Andrew Barr <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday 13 June 2006 11:02, m h wrote:
> > I've got an R52 with Intel chipset.  glxgears, tuxracer work fine, but
> > this app is very slow.  Plus the fonts are hideous.
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> Hm. I have an R51 with an Intel chipset. It seems fine to me. I have
> Debian "sid" with X.org 7.1, i810 driver version 1.6.0, AIGLX.
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> If you have AIGLX you probably should export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=true. That
> significantly boosted performance for me.
>

AIGLX shouldn't affect performance, if anything it should make it
worse due to the added overhead of encapsulating everything in
xprotocol and sending it through the server.  I suspect direct
rendering is not working properly for some reason.

> Maybe I don't know what I'm missing but performance on my machine is
> satisfactory for me.
>
> Setting your X server to 16-bit can boost performance on Intel chips, too.
>

That will definitely increase performance.

Alex

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