On 3/10/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/03/07, Chris Jones <jonesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 10 March 2007 1:21:15 pm Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 6400/ E1505 laptop with the ATI x1400 > > graphicsw card with 256 MB or video RAM (2 GB system RAM). However, > > when I try to run Google Earth, I get this: > > "You are currently runnin Google Earth in 'OpenGL' with software > > emulation." > > > > Apparently, Google Earth cannot use my graphics hardware. All the > > details on the Google Earth website pertain to Windows only. Does > > anybody have any experience configuring Google Earth on Fedora? > > Runs fine here (nvidia hardware with nvidia driver) > > I think the issue is more with your graphics driver than with google earth. > google earth needs decent 3D acceleration - The message suggests that the > driver you are using doesn't have this - Which ATI driver are you using ? > > Chris > Thanks for the qquick reply, Chris. I'm using the Vesa driver. Should I switch to Radeon?
Hi, I have in my desktop PC Pentium IV 3 GHz, 1 Gig RAM and an ATI Radeon X300 with 128 Mbytes Running Debian Etch and the last version of googleearth, and had the same problem you have. I went to the link provided on the dialog box that says you are running in emulation mode, and downloade the ATI driver, now it really runs fast! i was using VESA also, and did not work -- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) http://feeds.feedburner.com/go2linux http://www.go2linux.org
