radeon driver: google earth not accelerated

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

On Fri, 16 May 2008 21:31:42 +0000
Jethro Tull <heavytull at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> my Gcard is an ATI Mobility radeon X300; I'm using the Open source
> radeon driver compiled for Xorg 1.4.0.90, module version = 4.3.0.
> 
> I don't understand why google earth is still so slow. this driver is
> claimed to provide full 3D acceleration. glxinfo actually confirms
> that the direct rendering is on.
> 
> Some 3D screen savers are actually very fast, and do not eat the CPU
> resources. but google earth pushes the CPU to 100% load.
> 
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> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000009ukm/direct/01/

Use the 'driconf' program to configure the driver to disable low-impact
fallbacks.  The radeon driver is hitting an opengl function that it
doesn't accelerate in hardware, so it's falling back to software.  

Adam

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