Google Earth for Linux works on FreeBSD

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Ganbold <ganbold at micom.mng.net> (from Mon, 26 Jun 2006  
12:12:44 +0900):

> Rainer Alves wrote:
>> Ganbold wrote:
>>> Google-earth complained using OpenGL with software emulation.    
>>> FYI, I have i945G board with integrated graphic card.
>>
>> Just a heads-up for those using non-nvidia cards, Google Earth is   
>> now able to use hardware acceleration with the recently updated   
>> dri-devel port.
>>
>> Tested with an ATI Radeon and linux_base-fc4.
> I have:
>
> none1 at pci1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x06021002 chip=0x5b601002 rev=0x00
> hdr=0x00
>    vendor   = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
>    device   = 'Radeon X300 Series'
>    class    = display
>    subclass = VGA
> none2 at pci1:0:1: class=0x038000 card=0x06031002 chip=0x5b701002 rev=0x00
> hdr=0x00
>    vendor   = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
>    device   = 'Radeon X300 Series - Secondary'
>    class    = display
>
> I installed new linux_dri port, but google-earth doesn't want to use
> hardware acceleration.
> How to make it use hw acceleration?

According to  
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardware an X300 is not well supported for 3D. So if you don't get HW accelerated 3D with a FreeBSD native program, you will not have HW acceleration in a linux program  
either.

Bye,
Alexander.

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