Dotan Cohen wrote: > Taking the hardware I have, is there a 'prefered' way to enable 3D so > that I can use Google Earth? (Radeon X1400) I'll gladly do as > recommended. Of course, I'd prefer to purchase hardware that supports > open source, but that will be then next time I buy hardware. Learn and > live, no? In the meantime, what can I do? If there is an open source > alternative, then I'll happily use it. I have a Radeon X1600 Mobility chipset in my laptop. What I did: Install fglrx X11 drivers and the appropriate kernel module. Configure the xorg.conf file. Make sure that it includes: Section "Module" load "GLcore" load "glx" load "dri" ... Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" # this makes DRI work with fglrx EndSection GoogleEarth now runs just fine. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
