Re: [SLUG] Running Google Earth in Ubuntu

[Ken Caldwell <kencaldwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 17:05 +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 06:05 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > fglrx won't give you direct rendering on 9200 whatsoever.. they stopped 
> > supporting that card a long time ago..
> > 
> > the open source driver should support that card in feisty fine..
> > 
> > glxinfo should give direct rendering... does glxgears run?
> > 
> > Does the system lockup completely? do you have any fancy AGP options 
> > enabled in the logs..? does adding Option "CardType" "PCI" to the 
> > driver section in xorg.conf make any difference?
> 
> Attached is my xorg.conf file and a file glxinfo.txt containing the
> output of glxinfo. glxgears runs slowly and jerkily unless the window is
> small.
> 
> The computer does not lock solid when I try to run googleearth but as
> that program seems to take about 95% of the CPU time not much else
> happens!
> 
> I cant see mention of AGP in the xorg.conf file, in which log file
> should I look. (As you have no doubt guessed my knowledge of video cards
> is very limited.)
> 
I edited xorg.conf to call the "radeon" subdriver but the results were
as before. I note that glxinfo reports "direct rendering: No" but I have
not determined why. I shall be off line now until Monday.

cheers,
Ken