new googleearth opengl software emulation [FROM BAD TO WORSE

albright · Last edited by albright on Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:33 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi all. I upgraded googleearth this morning and now when I
start it I get a message saying something like:

currently running opengl in software emulation mode

googleearth is slow

glxinfo says direct rendering is ON

this is intel GM965 driver 2.8.1

xorg-server 1.6.3.901-r1

mesa 7.5.1

kernel 2.6.31-zen0

Is this just the current state of intel graphics, or might
there be a fix? TIA
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SZwarts · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:38 am Post subject:

Just writing to confirm I have the same (also intel video card)

glxinfo:
direct rendering: Yes

and also very very slow googleearth and the same warning about software emulation.

(I for one am slowly losing faith in Intel graphics)
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albright · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:32 pm Post subject:

Glad I'm not alone I guess

But in a fit of madness I thought I'd try out the x11 overlay's
mesa and intel drivers.

BAD IDEA. This did not fix googleearth but now I've lost
all kde desktop effects - they will not initiate and kde disables
them if I try to set them.

I've gone back to intel 2.8.1 but the problem persists.

I've rebuild kwin and plasma-workspace but the problem persists.

I've even rebooted but the problem persists.

PLEASE NOTE: all packages installed are now back to exactly the same versions
as when I started this misadventure when desktop effects worked perfectly.

This is the kind of thing that makes you want to buy a mac.
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soya · Guru Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 429

Maybe it's a stupid idea but, have you tried using different web browsers?
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albright · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject:

I found that removing ~/.drirc let me get back desktop effects.

How would using a different web browser have any effect on
the composite extension and opengl?
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soya · Guru Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 429

Sorry i missunderstood, i thought the problem was when browsing google maps. I though the issue was poor performance wheen browsing google maps.
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