Other 3D apps I've tried seem fairly snappy, and with desktop effects enabled, my windows wiggle weasonably well (as Elmer Fudd might say), but googleearth seems agonizingly slow. I see these messages if I run it from a terminal: zooty> googleearth libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b *********************************WARN_ONCE********************************* File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 428 Software fallback:ctx->Line.SmoothFlag *************************************************************************** Try R300_SPAN_DISABLE_LOCKING env var if this hangs. *********************************WARN_ONCE********************************* File r300_state.c function r300Enable line 513 TODO - double side stencil ! *************************************************************************** Mean anything to anyone?