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

Wed Jan 20 08:56:54 UTC 2010

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>

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