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x86_64 crashes, and 3D graphics

x86_64 crashes, and 3D graphics

Posted Jun 15, 2006 15:05 UTC (Thu) by mbligh (subscriber, #7720)
Parent article: Google Earth for Linux

For the crashing on x86_64, doing LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.20 might help. Or it might not ;-)

More of a problem was getting hardware OpenGL support. Is there ANY card that can do this without bending over to receive a binary device driver inside the kernel? Earth is way too slow without it.

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x86_64 crashes, and 3D graphics

Posted Jun 15, 2006 15:28 UTC (Thu) by kamil (guest, #3802) [Link]

I tried googleearth on two laptops: one with ATI Radeon Mobility 7500, another one with Intel 855 GM (the first Centrino chipset). In either case with standard, open-source drivers. Googleearth works quite well on both. Although I get serious rendering artifacts right after starting it, simply resizing the window by a pixel or two fixes them for good.

x86_64 crashes, and 3D graphics

Posted Jun 15, 2006 15:44 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183) [Link]

I'm running it on a five year old ATI Rage 128 using whatever free driver is installed, while not exactly fast, it works. It flickers and crashes inside the DRI driver on occasion, but other than that...

As has been said earlier, the viewer is not the hard part. The hard part is the dataset, which Google has and we don't. Oh well...


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