googleearth and radeon driver?

[Steven Stern]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:36:56 -0600
> Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
> 
>> Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:18:12 -0500
>>> Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> googleearth seems agonizingly slow
>>> Nevermind, eventually found answer with some web searches.
>>> There is a "driconf" utility you can download which will
>>> fill in a ~/.drirc file, and then you can toggle the
>>> disable_lowimpact_fallback option to be true, and suddenly
>>> googleearth seems infinitely zippier.
>>>
>> Do you have a download source for this? I found a sourceforge page, but
>> there are no files.
>>
> 
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriConf has a pointer to a site
> with rpms, I just installed the rpm from there. Actually, all I
> needed the tool for was to get the right syntax for the xml
> in the .drirc file. I'll attach the one I wound up with.
> 

Thanks, Tom.  GoogleEarth works just about as well as it does on my
Windows machine.

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  Steve