He might be using fglrx which is different than the xorg ATI driver: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search radeon gatos - ATI All-in-Wonder TV capture software radeontool - utility to control ATI Radeon backlight functions on laptops rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of your Radeon card xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server -- ATI display driver fglrx-control - Control panel for the ATI graphics accelerators fglrx-driver - Display driver for the ATI graphics accelerators fglrx-driver-dev - Display driver for the ATI graphics accelerators (development files) fglrx-kernel-src - Kernel module source for the ATI graphics accelerators
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 06:03:00PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Googleearth runs on my Thinkpad r50e but slowly, because it is using > emulation of OpenGL according to the message that comes up. > > My son has almost the same computer but runs Suse and he gets fast > smooth rendering using the standard radeon driver, which is the right > one for my video too. I thought the difference might be that he has the > AGPFastWrite option enabled in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but setting this makes > no difference here. > > Any ideas about what is needed? Anyone got googleearth running on a > similar machine? > > > -- > Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian > http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, > on-line books and sceptical articles) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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