On Tuesday 13 March 2007 08:44, Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: Thank you for your reply. I may try that later today to see if it works, but i just found an nVidia MX-400 pci card (it works) and will be installing it, as I know that the -400 card works well with those apps. It has its own set of issues when the kernel is upgraded, but that is minor compared to the poor performance of the ATI card. Thanks again, Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
