Google Earth

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 07:13:05PM +0300, Peter wrote
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just got Google Earth for Linux and it works fine with the exception 
> of some small quirks in the left sidebar menu flow. However it is slow 
> (as they said). What would be a good set of tips on how to set up the 
> software so it is usable on slow machines. I tried to make all the 'fly' 
> options fast and all the other options slow. This should give 
> 'step'-like movements and somewhat higher speed. Any more ideas ?

  Google Earth needs a video driver that supports hardware video
acceleration.  Doesn't matter if it's Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Unfortunately, there aren't that many video cards that have drivers with
hardware acceleration support.

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