Google Earth stuck in graphics emulation

[Dotan Cohen]

On 10/03/07, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks for the qquick reply, Chris. I'm using the Vesa driver. Should
> > I switch to Radeon?
>
> I have no personal experience with ATI hardware, but I would say almost
> certainly yes. The vesa driver doesn't (as far as I know) have any 3D
> capabilities.
> You should probably consider installing the ATI fglrx if you want decent
> performance with ATI hardware (yes, I know its closed source ... Make you own
> decision. For me, with nvidia, I *have* to install the nvidia driver since
> the OSS nv driver has zero 3D performance, and I need 3D performance for work
> reasons.)
>
> cheers Chris
>

I'm googling fglrx now. I have no problem with installing proprietary
software: if somebody developed it and licensed it for legal usage,
then why not? Of course I would also prefer to use and to promote open
source code, but I'll not cripple my system in the absence of such
code.

As per the instructions at http://www.fedorafaq.org/ I drop to
runlevel 3 after installing kmod-fglrx via yum. I try to run
ati-fglrx-config-display, but it is not installed! Other than
installing from the tarball, is there any way to properly configure
fglrx?

Dotan Cohen

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