Google earth on FC6

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 08:05:49 UTC 2007


On 09/06/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys Google Earth works perfect on Fedora Core 4 here. All functions
> are working and it is real good.
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> Karl
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> Sultan Saini wrote:
> > On 6/8/07, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> >> I find it works much better with the attached magic .drirc file in my
> >> home directory. The key parameter is:
> >>
> >> <option name="disable_lowimpact_fallback" value="true" />
> >> --
> >
> > Thanks, I'll give that a try
> >
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Sorry for jumping in late. Google Earth ran fine on FC6 with an X1400
in a Dell Inspiron with a lot of xorg.config tweaking. The same tweaks
enabled GE in the current Ubuntu. Here is the working xorg.conf:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Synaptics"
	Driver      "synaptics"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto-dev"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
	Option	    "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "LCD Panel 1680x1050"
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
	HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
	VertRefresh  59.9 - 60.1
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Module"
       load "GLcore"
       load "glx"
       load "dri"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
       Group 0
       Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
       Option "Composite" "Disable"  # this makes DRI work with fglrx
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
		Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
                Modes    "1680x1050"
	EndSubSection
EndSection




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