On Fri, 16 May 2008 21:31:42 +0000 Jethro Tull <heavytull@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > my Gcard is an ATI Mobility radeon X300; I'm using the Open source > radeon driver compiled for Xorg 1.4.0.90, module version = 4.3.0. > > I don't understand why google earth is still so slow. this driver is > claimed to provide full 3D acceleration. glxinfo actually confirms > that the direct rendering is on. > > Some 3D screen savers are actually very fast, and do not eat the CPU > resources. but google earth pushes the CPU to 100% load. > > _________________________________________________________________ > > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000009ukm/direct/01/ Use the 'driconf' program to configure the driver to disable low-impact fallbacks. The radeon driver is hitting an opengl function that it doesn't accelerate in hardware, so it's falling back to software. Adam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg