Google Earth for Linux works on FreeBSD

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Eric Schuele <e.schuele at computer.org> (from Wed, 14 Jun 2006  
09:46:51 -0500):

> I have the following:
> linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7  =  up-to-date with port
> linux-atk-1.8.0_2           =  up-to-date with port
> linux-expat-1.95.7_1        =  up-to-date with port
> linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_4    =  up-to-date with port
> linux-glib2-2.4.8_2         =  up-to-date with port
> linux-gtk2-2.4.14_4         =  up-to-date with port
> linux-jpeg-6b.33_1          =  up-to-date with port
> linux-openmotif-2.2.4_2     =  up-to-date with port
> linux-pango-1.6.0_2         =  up-to-date with port
> linux-png-1.2.8_1           =  up-to-date with port
> linux-sdl-1.2.5_2           =  up-to-date with port
> linux-tiff-3.6.1_6          =  up-to-date with port
> linux_base-8-8.0_15         =  up-to-date with port
> linux_dri-4.4.0             =  up-to-date with port
>
> Google earth works fine, but with no hardware acceleration.  Can you
> provide any tips (or links) on getting hardware acceleration running?
> Or am I running the wrong setup.

linux_dri needs to be updated to a version which works with you  
FreeBSD X server (I assume xorg). I didn't had time yet to look at it  
(there are several things on my TODO list with a higher priority). So  
feel free to come up with a patch for it.

Bye,
Alexander.

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