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intel 810 chipset graphics driver update

i think my graphics driver dosent have all the functionality
i am not able to run google eath properly
there have been projects to implements different functionality in the driver of 810 grafix card
something like direct fb , fb , svga , vmd , directfbgfxdriver
and i dont know anything about them can some on help me out what all i need to do get things working
it would be great if some one could even tell me what all grafix card do and whats all these features are like direct fb gfx

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Originally Posted by amolgupta

i think my graphics driver dosent have all the functionality
i am not able to run google eath properly

What do you mean by this? Is the animation slow? Perhaps you don't have 3D acceleration enabled? To find out run

Code:

glxinfo |grep direct

in a terminal window.

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there have been projects to implements different functionality in the driver of 810 grafix card
something like direct fb , fb , svga , vmd , directfbgfxdriver
and i dont know anything about them can some on help me out what all i need to do get things working
it would be great if some one could even tell me what all grafix card do and whats all these features are like direct fb gfx

I believe the framebuffer drivers are more experimental, and as far as I can tell intelfb only supports up to 1024x768 :(