Bug#414031: google-earth doesn't work with current version of xserver-xorg-video-i810

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:16 +0100, Hermann Kraus wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-i810
> Version: 2:1.7.2-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> When trying to run google earth with the current version of
> xserver-xorg-video-i810 I get the following messages:
> -----
> do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working
> correctly.
> Try running with LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH and LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH unset.
> -----
> and I only get one frame per 3 or 4 seconds. Therefore google-earth is
> unusable with this driver. 
> Both vars are not set. 
> glxgears works without any problems.

Maybe Google Earth enables sync-to-vblank via GLX API. Does it work if
you set the environment variable

vblank_mode=0

?

Alternatively, does it work with libgl1-mesa-dri from experimental?

What does

dmesg|grep i915

say?


> I'm not sure when this problem was introduced, but the last time I used
> google-earth was around mid-february IIRC. Is there somewhere an archive
> of old versions so I can try which ones work?

There's snapshot.debian.net.


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