Please, some R200 love!

[Panix]

I think people are saying that you're penalized for using/buying an older laptop with an older card, period.

That said, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to get it running, but you do need to be a bit nicer to the people who are trying to help.

I don't think so. If it was an older Nvidia or Intel card, I don't think it would be as bad. Anyway, I rebooted (I guess I forgot?!?) and there seems to be a change after that. I now get around 956FPS when I run glxgears. That's a big difference over the 100 or so I was getting. The negative is, by some coincidence, my Google Earth seems to be 'broken.' It won't start anymore and I get an 'error' message. I am not sure if that problem is outside the scope of this topic or category but the log seems to have mention of DRI and the R200 of the card. I think it's related to the 'proper' install or optimization of the video drivers. But, I'm only speculating.

Anyway, I think there was an improvement over the previous driver install but something is still wrong.

My original post was just frustration. I am stuck using this old laptop for now and it seems most apps I install have some issue related to the video drivers. Also, there are hardware issues (unrelated) but that's something else.

[adamk]

Google Earth has been broken on r300 and r500 since it's most recent release. I'd assume the same is true for r200, though I honestly don't know whose fault the crash is.

Adam

[adamk]

EDIT: I meant r300 and r600. Obviously r500 is true as well since it uses the r300 driver.

Adam

[marek]

Google Earth has been broken on r300 and r500 since it's most recent release. I'd assume the same is true for r200, though I honestly don't know whose fault the crash is.

Run in the google earth directory:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. gdb ./googleearth-bin

And please post the backtrace.

[nanonyme]

Out of curiosity: was this latest somewhat working situation with kernel modesetting or without?

[Panix]

Is that question to me?

I don't think it's enabled right now. I suspect it wasn't enabled before - do you have to manually change between the two settings?

I use Gmail and I am finding more problems logging in. I wonder if Google is slipping as a whole.

[nanonyme]

I don't think it's enabled right now. I suspect it wasn't enabled before - do you have to manually change between the two settings?

Normal people boot when switching KMS on and off. (no offense to the people originally developing KMS )
Yes, you do have to enable it manually. Kernel parameter on boot is the common way to do it. I think first page of this thread included talk on this.

[adamk]

Run in the google earth directory:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. gdb ./googleearth-bin

And please post the backtrace.

http://pastebin.com/684n0eNa

And here's the crashlog from google earth:

http://pastebin.com/i8DN55Kh

[marek]

http://pastebin.com/684n0eNa

And here's the crashlog from google earth:

http://pastebin.com/i8DN55Kh

I've been hitting this issue too. I am not sure whose bug this is, but Google Earth is the only application that can trigger it. It was already reported to Google some time ago.

[Panix]

But, users with non-ATI cards claim GE work fine?