[ltp] OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[Tino Keitel]

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.

Regards,
Tino