GoogleEarth accelerated problems - Intel 82830 i915 module OpenGL Tungsten Graphics Video Driver

[Keith Whitwell]

Hereon wrote:
> Hi - Help - Please tell me - which mailing list should I address this
> question to? (Note: I've tried the dri-users at lists.sourceforge.net, but
> got no replies there. Is that the correct place? Is there someplace
> better? Like, for the Intel 82830 video driver sw?)
> 
> 
> My laptop with an Intel 82830 wont display GoogleEarth properly in
> accelerated graphics mode. lsmod shows i915 loaded. If I tell the system
> to use another driver (i830 ?, IIRC), GE displays _properly but 10 times
> slower_. (I'm guessing it's doing sw emulation, no hardware
> acceleration?) Using latest released Kubuntu, on Sony Vaio.
> 
> I found this thread which seems like my problem:
> 
> Intel Integrated Graphics display problems
> http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/456558/an/0/page/0
> 
> "The OpenGL over lay dosn't seem to line up properly with the display
> window and the on screen controls don't line up with the place where you
> have to click to use them. The Overlay tends to move about when you
> resize the window and a lot of display rubbish gets left behind around
> the edges."
> 
> screen shot demonstrating the problem
> http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tmw/ge.jpg
> 
> I'm guessing it's due to the graphics accelerator chip sw, since the
> emulation(?) works fine.
> 
> Any idea which mailing list is for the sw creators who handle the intel
> 82830 hw?
> 
> Any idea how to isolate the sw that is the problem?
> Or a fix?
> 
> Note Ubuntu should release their next version this October, with a later
> X - X 7.1 ?
> I think the current version might be 6.?? 6.8? 6.9?
> [The Adept package manager shows xserver-xorg installed, ver
> 7.0.0-0ubuntu45]
> 
> Is there a better mailing list to ask this question?  Maybe a developers
> list?
> 
> Thanks! :)
> 

I fixed this a few months ago in Mesa CVS.  I don't know enough about 
how ubuntu picks up driver versions to say when this bugfix will make it 
into their distro.

Keith