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Google Earth running very, very slowly

Asked by MTMartin

Installed Google Earth on 8.10, but it runs impossibly slow, with the graphics panel turning black with every click of the mouse. I tend to think that 3D acceleration is not enabled on my graphics card. I have an ATI Radeon Mobility U1 card. I don't know how to determine this for sure, nor how to correct it if it is the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

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Christopher Lunsford (binarymutant) said : 		#1

please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
You can get information about your card with the lspci command, and to determine if you have 3D graphic capability you can use the command glxinfo | grep "Direct"

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MTMartin (pilotguy777) said : 		#2

This is the result of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc AGP Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 01)
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:09.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1

glxinfo | grep "Direct" doesn't do anything. Any idea why?

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Christopher Lunsford (binarymutant) said : 		#3

sorry I forgot it was case sensitive, it's really:
glxinfo | grep "direct"

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