Google Earth stuck in graphics emulation

[Frode Petersen]

Dotan Cohen skrev:
> On 10/03/07, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks for the qquick reply, Chris. I'm using the Vesa driver. Should
>> > I switch to Radeon?
>>
>> I have no personal experience with ATI hardware, but I would say almost
>> certainly yes. The vesa driver doesn't (as far as I know) have any 3D
>> capabilities.
>> You should probably consider installing the ATI fglrx if you want decent
>> performance with ATI hardware (yes, I know its closed source ... Make 
>> you own
>> decision. For me, with nvidia, I *have* to install the nvidia driver 
>> since
>> the OSS nv driver has zero 3D performance, and I need 3D performance 
>> for work
>> reasons.)
>>
>> cheers Chris
>>
> 
> I'm googling fglrx now. I have no problem with installing proprietary
> software: if somebody developed it and licensed it for legal usage,
> then why not? Of course I would also prefer to use and to promote open
> source code, but I'll not cripple my system in the absence of such
> code.
> 
> As per the instructions at http://www.fedorafaq.org/ I drop to
> runlevel 3 after installing kmod-fglrx via yum. I try to run
> ati-fglrx-config-display, but it is not installed! Other than
> installing from the tarball, is there any way to properly configure
> fglrx?
> 
> Dotan Cohen
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I use the ati fglrx driver from the livna repo. Works fine here, and 
it's easier.

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/<arch>....

Frode