Google Earth

Peter plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Sat Jul 22 09:13:01 UTC 2006


On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Walter Dnes wrote:

> 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.

I know, I was looking for settings in Options which would accelereate it 
a little bit. Yet, some of those which would work under Linux, would be ?

thanks,
Peter
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