Google Earth stuck in graphics emulation
Frode Petersen
fropeter at online.no
Sat Mar 10 14:39:47 UTC 2007
Dotan Cohen skrev:
> 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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I use the ati fglrx driver from the livna repo. Works fine here, and
it's easier.
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/<arch>....
Frode
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