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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:08:06 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
Cc:        Rainer Alves <rainer.alves@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Google Earth for Linux works on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20060626090806.i45u600g0wg0c84w@netchild.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <449F50AC.70401@micom.mng.net>
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Quoting Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> (from Mon, 26 Jun 2006 =20
12:12:44 +0900):

> Rainer Alves wrote:
>> Ganbold wrote:
>>> Google-earth complained using OpenGL with software emulation.   =20
>>> FYI, I have i945G board with integrated graphic card.
>>
>> Just a heads-up for those using non-nvidia cards, Google Earth is  =20
>> now able to use hardware acceleration with the recently updated  =20
>> dri-devel port.
>>
>> Tested with an ATI Radeon and linux_base-fc4.
> I have:
>
> none1@pci1:0:0: class=3D0x030000 card=3D0x06021002 chip=3D0x5b601002 rev=
=3D0x00
> hdr=3D0x00
>    vendor   =3D 'ATI Technologies Inc'
>    device   =3D 'Radeon X300 Series'
>    class    =3D display
>    subclass =3D VGA
> none2@pci1:0:1: class=3D0x038000 card=3D0x06031002 chip=3D0x5b701002 rev=
=3D0x00
> hdr=3D0x00
>    vendor   =3D 'ATI Technologies Inc'
>    device   =3D 'Radeon X300 Series - Secondary'
>    class    =3D display
>
> I installed new linux_dri port, but google-earth doesn't want to use
> hardware acceleration.
> How to make it use hw acceleration?

According to =20
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon?action=3Dhighlight&value=3DCategor=
yHardware an X300 is not well supported for 3D. So if you don't get HW accel=
erated 3D with a FreeBSD native program, you will not have HW acceleration i=
n a linux program =20
either.

Bye,
Alexander.

--=20
Don't be humble, you're not that great.
=09=09-- Golda Meir

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