On Mar 08, 07 16:42:04 -0600, Stevens wrote: > I put 10.2 in an old Gateway P3/900MHz box that has an "ATI Rage 128 Pro > Ultra TF" video card. It seems to work ok with mplayer and DukeNukem and > others. . > > glxgears reports "3249 frames in 5.0 seconds = 649.740 FPS" and the > animation is nice and smooth. When I run Google Earth the earth screen > really flashes and flickers So, what's up with G.E.?
Apparently GE doesn't get enough framebuffer memory for double buffering. Which isn't really strange, as GE needs a lot of textures and the ATI Rage 128 is a dead old card. > Can this be fixed using that graphics card? Try starting GE in a smaller window (not resizing later, that won't help). Also, there are (undocumented) the options "AGPSize" and "BufferSize" which you can try out. Both take some integer (MByte), and BufferSize has to be smaller than AGPSize. AGPSize can be a power of 2 from 4 to 256. The rest you have to try out for yourself. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
