[wellylug] Google Earth

[Alex Thomson]

Yeah, I didn't mention that part about enabling DRI (I hope it doesn't 
come to that!).  If so, you will have to try adding these lines in your 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf (will need to be root user):

(In the "Module" section)
      Load "dri"

(...and at the end of the file...)
Section "dri"
     Mode 0666
EndSection

Oh, and in answer to your question- Yep, grep just displays the lines 
where the string "DRI" exists (very useful for trolling logs!)

Graphics cards in Linux is a tricky subject and can be very difficult to 
get going correctly.  Very few card manufacturers provide official linux 
drivers, and I'm sorry to say, I don't think yours does, so it *might* 
not be possible to use the the acceleration features of your card in 
linux at all! :(  (ie. you will have to run in 'Software Emulation' mode)




Rob Collins wrote:
> BTW Alex, you didn't mention how to go about enabling DRI if it isn't.  
> Grep just searches and displays lines of code with "DRI", doesn't 
> actually change anything in it right?
> 
> Alex.Thomson at solnetsolutions.co.nz wrote:
>> Hi, there are a few things you can try:
>>
>> a) See if DRI is enabled (Direct Rendering allows the software to 
>> direct access the hardware on the graphics card = fast graphics)
>> Do this in a console window: "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep DRI" 
>> (without quotes)
>> This SHOULD return (I suspect it won't)
>> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
>> (**) SAVAGE(0): DRI is enabled
>> (II) SAVAGE(0): [DRI] installation complete
>>
>> b) Another thing to try is in a console window run "glxgears 
>> -printfps"  This will give an indication of generally how speedy your 
>> graphics are running (on my machine (with no DRI) I get around 150ish 
>> and GoogleEarth is very slow as well)
>>
>> BTW- when you start googleearth, it mentions an OpenGL problem and 
>> says it will run in Software Emulation right?
>>
>> Rob Collins wrote:
>>> Has anyone else had any problems getting Google Earth running 
>>> properly in Kubuntu using openGL?  I installed this very good app the 
>>> other day but comes up with message box when starting up saying that 
>>> graphics card driver not properly configured and that it will 
>>> continue to run on openGL, just very slowly.  It was not wrong, it 
>>> does run but the speed is such that it is soooo slow as to be not 
>>> worth the effort!
>>>
>>> My motherboard-integrated graphics card is S3 proSavage8 KM266.  The 
>>> stock standard drivers supplied with Kubuntu 6.10 do not list this so 
>>> I chose "savage generic with software m/pointer" instead, 64MB ram, 
>>> which runs everything OK except for Google Earth.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Rob Collins
>>> (PS, fairly new to Linux)
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