[ltp] r300+fireglT2+google_earth?

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:02:49 -0400


On 8/21/07, Nils <linuxuser@knabber.homelinux.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anybody a working google-earth installation?
> I installed google earth 4.1 beta and it's very slow, wrong rendered (a nearly
> empty globe at the start screen) and crashes my computer sometimes. If I
> disable Low-Impact fallback (this was a solution a year ago) it crashs after
> starting ?!?
>

Turn off fastwrites (as per default).  That option leads to lock up in
99% of cases and only provide minimal if any performance improvement.

Alex

> Nils
>
>
>
> My configuration:
>
> glxinfo | grep Mesa
>
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
> OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.1
>
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> (...)
> Section "Device"
>  Identifier "ATI"
>  driver "radeon"
>  BusID  "PCI:1:0:0"
>  Screen 0
>  Option "DynamicClocks" "yes"
>  Option "AGPMode" "1"
>  Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
>  Option "AGPFastWrite" "1"
>  Option "EnablePageFlip" "1"
> (...)