On Saturday 07 February 2009 16:40:28 Randall R Schulz wrote:
libGL.so.1 is included Mesa-32bit-7.2-10.1 in openSuSE 11.1.
I must seem very dense. In what sense is "Mesa-32bit-7.2-10.1" included in openSuSE 11.1? If it is a file, it is not present in my system. If it is a package, YaST doesn't seem to know about it. What or where is it?
Do you not have an accelerated 3D graphics card or chipset and the required driver for it? If not and you're forced to use Mesa, you're not going to find Google Earth or any other 3D program very much fun to run because 3D rendering will be done on the system's main CPU, not on the graphics card's specialized rendering processors and that is far slower and eats into CPU cycles available to the application that needs to supply the 3D data to be rendered.
Thanks for these remark, the problem is for the first time becoming clear to me. The MB of this machine is Intel D915GAV; it does have a 32bit 3D graphics engine. The v11.1 My Computer screen describes the graphics system thus: Vendor: Tungsten Graphics Inc Model Mesa DRI Intel 915G 20080716 That description is new to me. The description in the v10.3 My Computer screen says only that it is 915G, with Intel Support. Is it possible that v11.1 is using an incorrect driver that is not supporting the capabilities of the display system? Or that the display system is not up to coping with GoogleEarth v4.3? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org