Re: google earth error (opengl error)

[Andreas Ehn <ehn@kth.se>]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 10:40 +0200, Andreas Ehn wrote:

> Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> 
> > Sure. DRI isn't enabled. Check whether your kernel has the i915
> > module. And check that you are using the i810 Xorg/XFree86 driver,
> > depending on your distro, X etc.
> > 
> > Also, if you are using Xorg 7.0 on Debian (Etch or Sid), DRI is
> > broken, and I had to get the latest version at dri.freedesktop.org and
> > replaced the Debian package's vrsion, but I don't know whether that
> > bug still exists.
> 
> It does. You can get CVS versions of DRI 6.5 from the experimental 
> distribution. The packages you need are libgl1-mesa-dri, libgl1-mesa-glx 
> and libglu1-mesa.
> 
> See bug #359328: http://bugs.debian.org/359328
> 
> That got DRI working for me on i810. I still can't run Google Earth, 
> though, for some reason:
> 
> http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/447774/an/0/page/0
> 
> Please let us know if you have better luck.

I'm happy to report that it works much better with kernel 2.6.17. It's
still a bit slow, but at least it works.

Cheers,
Andreas