On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:38:42AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > The problem situation appears to be the one in which X > enables DRI but the hardware (or driver code) cannot handle > it and substitutes a software solution (?), which used to > be the case for Fedora/24 bits. Apparently Ubuntu is > smarter today. > > Question: do Google Earth, Stellarium etc run fast both > for 24 and 16 bits on your system?
Google earth does. Not sure what counts as 'fast' but it is certainly usable, limiting factor seems top be the bandwidth. I never heard of Stellarium, so I did not test that. Andre'