Bug 20706

Summary:	provide hardware accelaration for Google Earth
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb>
Component:	Driver/radeonhd	Assignee:	Luc Verhaegen <lverhaegen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.4 (2008.09)
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Elmar Stellnberger 2009-03-17 03:43:51 UTC

There are a lot of reports for Google Earth/Mesa. However Google Earth will never run at an acceeptable speed even on new computers if it can not make use of the OpenGL hardware accellaration. Google Earth is the most used 3D-application under Linux (in contrast to various games like Simcity) so it seemed to make sense to provide sufficient support for this app before others. As I have heard endeavour for better 3D-support should already be on its way for radeonhd. Please notify me here as soon as things should be far enough progressed to venture a test with the newest radeonhd-version.

Comment 1 Matthias Hopf 2009-03-25 06:44:20 UTC

This is not a bug. It's a missing feature that is being worked on.

Comment 2 Elmar Stellnberger 2009-06-18 04:05:59 UTC

  Wanna mark this as resolved since Marble and Google Earth work quite well now at me with the newest radeonhd and Xorg in drm/exa-mode 
( xorg-x11-server-7.4-59.3,
  xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd-1.2.5_20090506_4be5f71-7.19 ). 
Nonetheless there are always some special features which could still be implemented...

Comment 3 Elmar Stellnberger 2009-06-18 05:34:30 UTC

well done!

Comment 4 Elmar Stellnberger 2009-06-18 05:34:45 UTC

great.

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