[ltp] OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/13/06, Hugo <hscarrer@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/13/06, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de> wrote:
> > 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:
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> > > >[...]
> > > >
> > > >> 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.
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> Ok so I'm running 2.6.8 and the option CONFIG_DRM_SAVAGE is nowhere to be
> found so it looks like I should get a newer kernel right?

yes,  2.6.8 is too old.  I don't recall what was the first kernel to
have savage support was, but 2.6.16 should be fine.

Alex

> Thanks
> Hugo
>
> > Regards,
> > Tino
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