Googleearth again

[Duane Clark]

Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:04 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
>> In any case it is not true that you need 3D acceleration ...
> 
> Hmm, I was fairly sure that it was a requirement.  Though it could have
> been one of those "it's going to be awful without it" instructions,
> rather than an absolutely dependency.  Quickly looking at the website,
> it does list a card with 3D capability as a requirement, but not
> specifically 3D acceleration.  Though some people might say one implies
> the other.
> 
> Having looked at some other things that wanted accelerated 3d on a video
> card that didn't have it, I'd be loath to see how Google Earth crawled
> on one.
> 

Well, I can tell you from experience, GE works (on F7) without the 
nvidia driver but it does indeed crawl very slowly, even on Core2 Q6600 
processor ;)