<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> my Gcard is an ATI Mobility radeon X300; I'm using the Open source radeon driver compiled for Xorg 1.4.0.90, module version = 4.3.0.<br><br>I don't understand why google earth is still so slow. this driver is claimed to provide full 3D acceleration. glxinfo actually confirms that the direct rendering is on.<br><br>Some 3D screen savers are actually very fast, and do not eat the CPU resources. but google earth pushes the CPU to 100% load.<br><br /><hr />Get fish-slapping on Messenger! <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000008ukm/direct/01/' target='_new'>Play Now</a></body> </html>