On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:41, Lonni J Friedman wrote: >On 11/7/06, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have an nVidia GeForce4 440 Go in my laptop and I use the nv driver >> on Fedora Core 6, recently upgraded (fresh install) from FC5. >> >> With this combination, googleearth is slow as molasses. On FC5 it was >> maybe a bit slow, but still perfectly usable, but on FC6 it's totally >> unusable. I basically get complete screen redraws one after the other >> while googleearth is zooming (well, trying to zoom) around. >> >> What happened between FC5 and FC6 to cause this? Is there anything I >> can do to improve things? > >I'd expect googleearth to be slow with the nv driver. > Additional info: it doesn't work, tending to miss-draw and freeze when running on an ati-9200SE using the kernels radeon driver. >> The version of googleearth is the same in both cases: Google Earth for >> GNU/Linux 4.0.2091. >> >> I have tried various binary drivers from nVidia, but they give even >> less joy: the latest beta (9626) gives me a completely black screen, >> even with the patch that nVidia provided. Version 7184 can be made to >> run, but then googleearth complains about GLX not being available (this >> is because the X server says that GLX and the Composite extension are >> not compatible). I forget what was the problem with 8776, but there >> was a problem there as well. > >You might want to try 1.0-9629 (released today). > > >-- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx >LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
