I put this file http://www.ground-impact.com/libGL.so.1.2 in the google earth directory and renamed it libGL.so.1. GE is running again, but so slowly it's hardly worth even trying.

But the comment that someone made about google earth runnign "a little" slower doesn't match my experience. It's "running" at about 1 mile per hour.

What is the long-term solution here? Am I waiting for a new ATI driver, a new GE version?