[ltp] OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[m h]

I've blogged about this app as well.

 http://panela.blog-city.com/googleearth_on_linux__give_me_back_my_web.htm

I've got an R52 with Intel chipset.  glxgears, tuxracer work fine, but
this app is very slow.  Plus the fonts are hideous.

I'm running Gentoo.  If anyone has thoughts on getting this working
with the intel chipset, let me know.

thanks

matt

On 6/13/06, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Mesa can be built as either a standalone OpenGL lib or as the software
> backend for DRI drivers depending on how you build it.
>
> Alex
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tino
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