On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 07:25 +0700, Hawit wrote:

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so it is said that intel graphic driver is installed by default when we have intel graphic card.

Yep.

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but the perfomance of intel driver is bad. i tried it on 2 different notebooks and both could not run google earth. with ATi or NVDIA, it runs so smooth. any bright idea for me to run google earth on intel 945 GM chip without problem? i m using opensuse

I have a "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller" on my Toshiba P105-S6207 and performance is quite good. I run GNOME wih "3D" effects enabled. I can watch video, etc... without any issues. I've never noticed a graphics performance issue (with 11.1 anyway, for awhile there was a bug in 11.0).

openSUSE 11.1, xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-19.8.2.i586

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yup i agree. i have no problem with 3D either. everything is running ok including compiz fusion, except for google earth. here is what i have on my system (opensuse 11.1): s6420:~ # rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-driver xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd-1.2.4_121202_4e89726-2.1.1 xorg-x11-driver-video-unichrome-20080807-12.44 xorg-x11-driver-input-7.4-11.6.1 xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-19.8.2 My notebook is Fujitsu S6420 Lifebook. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

medwinz wrote:

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Hawit wrote:

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On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 07:25 +0700, Hawit wrote:

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so it is said that intel graphic driver is installed by default when we have intel graphic card.

Yep.

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but the perfomance of intel driver is bad. i tried it on 2 different notebooks and both could not run google earth. with ATi or NVDIA, it runs so smooth. any bright idea for me to run google earth on intel 945 GM chip without problem? i m using opensuse

I have a "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller" on my Toshiba P105-S6207 and performance is quite good. I run GNOME wih "3D" effects enabled. I can watch video, etc... without any issues. I've never noticed a graphics performance issue (with 11.1 anyway, for awhile there was a bug in 11.0).

openSUSE 11.1, xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-19.8.2.i586

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yup i agree. i have no problem with 3D either. everything is running ok including compiz fusion, except for google earth. here is what i have on my system (opensuse 11.1):

s6420:~ # rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-driver xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd-1.2.4_121202_4e89726-2.1.1 xorg-x11-driver-video-unichrome-20080807-12.44 xorg-x11-driver-input-7.4-11.6.1 xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-19.8.2

My notebook is Fujitsu S6420 Lifebook.

Try to stop desktop effect / compiz before you launch google earth.

regards, ---- medwinz

i turn compiz off and my google earth still doesn't work. :( Intel graphic is bad in openSUSE .... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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medwinz wrote:

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Hawit wrote:

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On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 07:25 +0700, Hawit wrote:

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so it is said that intel graphic driver is installed by default when we have intel graphic card.

Yep.

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but the perfomance of intel driver is bad. i tried it on 2 different notebooks and both could not run google earth. with ATi or NVDIA, it runs so smooth. any bright idea for me to run google earth on intel 945 GM chip without problem? i m using opensuse

IIRC, not all graphic cards are supported by Google Earth. It requires 3D hardware acceleration. Does the Intel card have 3d hardware acceleration?

See: http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=20701

Many people are experiencing problems with the Intel 945 chipset on all distros with Google Earth. Open GL must be on. Please check out the following link: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/user.html Cheers! Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Roman B. wrote:

Roman B. wrote:

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Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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medwinz wrote:

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Hawit wrote:

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> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 07:25 +0700, Hawit wrote: > > > > >> so it is said that intel graphic driver is installed by default when we >> have intel graphic card. >> >> >> >> > Yep. > > > > > >> but the perfomance of intel driver is bad. i tried it on 2 different >> notebooks and both could not run google earth. with ATi or NVDIA, it >> runs >> so smooth. any bright idea for me to run google earth on intel 945 GM >> chip >> without problem? i m using opensuse >> >> >> IIRC, not all graphic cards are supported by Google Earth. It requires 3D hardware acceleration. Does the Intel card have 3d hardware acceleration?

See: http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=20701

Many people are experiencing problems with the Intel 945 chipset on all distros with Google Earth. Open GL must be on.

Please check out the following link:

http://intellinuxgraphics.org/user.html

Cheers!

Roman

Add this repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.1/ Update X -reboot.

Does this help?

Roman

One more thing I forgot to add: Open konsole and type in su Next: type cat /proc/cpuinfo at the command line. In the "flags" section you'll see things like "fpu mmx". Look for an "sse2" - if your processor has it, it'll be in that list of processors that are supported in Google Earth. What is SSE2? *Streaming SIMD Extensions 2*, is one of the IA-32 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32 SIMD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) instruction sets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2#CPUs_supporting_SSE2 Hope this helps. Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org