Bug#390188: Google Earth is very slow since mesa 6.5 with open source r300 drivers

[Robert Derochette]

Package: libgl1-mesa-glx
Version: 6.5.1-0.1
Severity: normal

Hi !

I know I should not report about programs that are not in Debian. Anyway here is the problem. Before libgl1-mesa-glx entered sid, I tried several cvs builds of libgl1-mesa-glx from 
experimental. Every time I started Google Earth with those experimental builds, Google Earth became very very slow (like 1 or 2 FPS). Downgrading to mesa 6.4 in Sid always solved the 
problem. Now that mesa 6.5 is stable and in Sid, the problem with Google earth is still there.

My machine is an IBM/Lenovo thinkpad R52. The 3D accelerator is an ATI r300. Note that I've just installed the latest build of Google Earth and the problem persists.

Thanks for any help !

Regards,

Robert Derochette

 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=fr_BE at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages libgl1-mesa-glx depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdrm2                      2.0.2-0.1   Userspace interface to kernel DRM 
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.0-9   X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                     1:1.0.1-2   X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxxf86vm1                  1:1.0.1-2   X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

libgl1-mesa-glx recommends no packages.

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