[ltp] OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:59:18 -0300, Hugo wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de> wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:43:44 -0300, Hugo wrote:
> >> On 6/13/06, Jiang Qian <qian2@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >> I got it working too on my T23 (using etch) it runs fine, but I don't
> >have
> >> OpenGL or whatever the name is for hardware accel. My machine has an  S3
> >> Inc. SuperSavage IX/C and apparently it is not possible to get 3D accel
> >on
> >> it. Is this true?
> >
> >No. It works alt least with XOrg 6.9 and 7.0.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Tino
> 
> 
> Great news! from /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> 
> 
> 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.

Regards,
Tino