Horrible artifacts in Fedora 12 and Google Earth! (fail)

[Valent Turkovic]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:56 AM, François Cami <fcami at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:15:30 +0100
> Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > I don't know if it is possible to make just GE use software rendering.
>> > You could try turning off hardware rendering for X and see if you still
>> > get artefacts. Might not be useful if you need hardware rendering for
>> > other apps, but would still be an interesting test.
>>
>> How do I turnoff hardware rendering in X?
>
> You can set the LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE environment variable just before
> starting your programs:
> LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 <program>
>
> F
>

Thank you François for sharing your knowledge, this helped. Google
Earth starts and works without any visual artefacts, but is,
understandably, slow.

Thank you once more!


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