video accel F19 on Acer Aspire One D255E netbook, lack thereof. [solved, sort of]

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 03:31:34PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> Hi gang!
> 
> I have two netbooks, an Asus 901 eeepc, and a newer Acer Aspire One
> D255E.
> 
> on the  older Asus, GoogleEarth runs quite nicely (for such a minimally-
> powered system). it's clearly getting some graphical acceleration from 
> the video chipset. (Thismachine is still running F17, soon to be upgraded,
> I hope.)

Well, I have a sort-of solution... I noted that the Asus is running
an older (by about a year) version of Google Earth, so I went looking
for that same version. I don't seem to have a copy of it locally, and
didn't quickly see a way to get into the Adobe archives, but they do 
have a link to "previous" version, so I downloaded that, "yum remove"d
the new one, and installed that "previous" version. Voila, I now get
3D Accel! Perhaps the newer one is looking for a newer/higher version
of OpenGL, or something.

But as long as I can remember not to update the package, I'm all set now.

> 
> the Acer, OTOH runs Google Earth so poorly as to be painful to watch
> it slowly accumulate bits on the screen, taking several minutes to 
> build up the default image upon startup. (This machine is running F19.)
> 
> The Asus is an old Atom N270 where "lsmod | grep video" reports:
> 
> $ lsmod | grep video
> uvcvideo               71406  0 
> videobuf2_vmalloc      13003  1 uvcvideo
> videobuf2_memops       13001  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
> videobuf2_core         37715  1 uvcvideo
> videodev               97059  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
> media                  19719  2 uvcvideo,videodev
> video                  18551  1 i915
> i2c_core               28312  6 drm,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,videodev
> 
> the Acer (Atom N570, dual core) reports  this from lsmod | grep video:
> 
> acer aspire one D255E
> 
> # lsmod | grep video
> uvcvideo               71417  0 
> videobuf2_vmalloc      13003  1 uvcvideo
> videobuf2_memops       13001  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
> videobuf2_core         37679  1 uvcvideo
> videodev               97069  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
> media                  19691  2 uvcvideo,videodev
> i2c_core               28434  6 drm,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,videodev
> video                  18551  2 i915,acer_wmi
> 
> 
> they appear virtually identical, except that the Acer includes "acer_wmi"
> along with i915 for "video".
> 
> Given that they seemto use the same Intel drivers, I'd expect them to
> provide more or less the same video performance but at least for Google
> Earth, they donot.
> 
> Anyone got any cles?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Fred
> 
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