[ltp] Re: Re: OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[Michael]

Frank Gevaerts wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:53:39PM +0200, Michael wrote:
>> Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV wrote:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 14:23 +0100, Hamish Marson wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Oh yea. Works great on my r50p with xorg r300 drivers... Suspend &
>> >> all.
>> > 
>> > It doesn't seem to work well on my X31 (Radeon Mobility M6 LY, Ubuntu
>> > Breezy).  It runs and I can "use" it, but there's flickery graphical
>> > garbage covering part of the Earth.  Other 3D apps seem to run fine.
>> > 
>> Strangely, it works when you use 24bit as screen depth. Seems to be a bug
>> in the radeon driver?
> 
> Probably. I had the same problem in debian/sid (didn't try 24 bit
> however), and it was solved by compiling a new driver from
> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
> 
> Frank
> 

Frank, can you give some more details on your setup? Is the laptop also a
Thinkpad X31? How did you get the git driver compiled? I have been told
that it only compiles against xorg 7.1 or xserver > 1.0, which is not in
debian/sid yet.


>> 
>> I will file a bugreport, but I'm not sure that this will be of any help.
>> It won't even be easy to explain exactly what the screen looks like...
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
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