Google Earth for Linux works on FreeBSD

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Mon Jun 26 22:42:13 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:12 +0900, Ganbold wrote:
> 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?

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting
has the steps for debugging DRI issues, including under linux compat.

-- 
Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com
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