[ltp] Re: OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[Timothy Murphy]

On Thursday 29 June 2006 00:43, Richard Neill wrote:

> >> Sadly, the best score I have (with the maximum of 512MB RAM) on my T20
> >> is ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> [tim@elizabeth ~]$ glxgears
> >> 70 frames in 5.6 seconds = 102.687 FPS
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >     Wow. Here's mine..
> >
> > $ glxgears -printfps
> > 8474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1694.717 FPS
> > 8343 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1668.480 FPS
> > 9339 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1867.789 FPS
> > 9324 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1864.613 FPS
> > 9313 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1862.537 FPS
>
> That means that you haven't got the 3D accelerated driver working!
>
> 2 things to check:
>
> 1)Which  setting do you have in xorg.conf?
...
> 2)Do you have too much of Mesa installed?
>     Either uninstall, or disable LibMesaGL
> Otherwise, it will default to software rendering when there is perfectly
> capable 3d hardware.

I'm not clear if everyone who has responded to the score on my T20 above
is actually running a T20.

I'm running Fedora-5, updated each day,
with the standard installation of Xorg.
I'm happy to try an alternative xorg.con if anyone shows me one.

I notice that according to lspci my video controller is:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 11)

Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

[I might add that 95% of my usage of this T20
is sending email, reading news and browsing,
and it is perfectly adequate for that.]

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