[ltp] Re: OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[D. Sen]

Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:53:39PM +0200, Michael wrote:
>> Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 14:23 +0100, Hamish Marson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh yea. Works great on my r50p with xorg r300 drivers... Suspend & all.
>>> It doesn't seem to work well on my X31 (Radeon Mobility M6 LY, Ubuntu
>>> Breezy).  It runs and I can "use" it, but there's flickery graphical
>>> garbage covering part of the Earth.  Other 3D apps seem to run fine.
>>>
>> Strangely, it works when you use 24bit as screen depth. Seems to be a bug in
>> the radeon driver?
> 
> Probably. I had the same problem in debian/sid (didn't try 24 bit however),
> and it was solved by compiling a new driver from
> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
> 
The git that I have is "GNU interactive tool". Where do I get the 
alternative git from?

Thanks,

> Frank
> 
>> I will file a bugreport, but I'm not sure that this will be of any help. It
>> won't even be easy to explain exactly what the screen looks like...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael
>>
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