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Old 04-05-2009, 07:46 AM   #16
niels.horn
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My experience with GoogleEarth and Intel graphic cards on Linux (two different boxes): it doesn't work...

Simplest no-headache solution: buy the cheapest ATI or nvidia card you can get, install it and GoogleEarth will work fine.
The Intel graphic cards work just fine for everything else by the way.
 
Old 08-12-2009, 11:47 AM   #17
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My experience with GoogleEarth and Intel graphic cards on Linux (two different boxes): it doesn't work...

Simplest no-headache solution: buy the cheapest ATI or nvidia card you can get, install it and GoogleEarth will work fine.
The Intel graphic cards work just fine for everything else by the way.
The Intel graphics card on my Laptop works seamlessly on Windows XP including Google Earth, but the same graphics card suck up on Ubuntu with Google Earth...

AFAIK, Intel supports Linux and must have provided the drivers for Linux. So GEarth must also work on Linux... I'll open a separate post on this issue....
 
Old 08-12-2009, 12:39 PM   #18
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Well, it has been some time (my post is from April) and new intel drivers have been released.

It might be worth trying again.
 
Old 08-12-2009, 02:06 PM   #19
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Yes, the 2.8.0 drivers have been released, install them from the slackware mirror in *.txz, the packages contains new modifies by rworkman with the help of testers here in LQ, they may work much better than the old ones and a lot of things may be fixed, G.E. might work perfectly and the rendering should be OK now.
 
Old 08-13-2009, 02:17 AM   #20
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Well you're right, but according to the information I found, Intel 2.8.0 drivers require the 2.6.30 kernel, my kernel is 2.6.28-11-generic (Ubuntu 9.04) So it seems I will upgrade the kernel; something which I haven't done before. Wow.

BTW, in the earlier post I said I'd open a separate topic on Intel Graphics issue, but now that you 've posted on this one, I don't need to do that, thanks.
 
  


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