Intel 82830 GoogleEarth accelerated problems - linux X Ubuntu window

Hi - My laptop with an 82830 wont display GoogleEarth properly in
accelerated graphics mode. (If I use another driver (i915 ?, IIRC), GE
displays properly but 10 times slower.) Using latest released Kubuntu,
on Sony Vaio.

0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC
[Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)

I found this thread which seems like my problem:

Intel Integrated Graphics display problems
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/456558/an/0/page/0

"The OpenGL over lay dosn't seem to line up properly with the display
window and the on screen controls don't line up with the place where you
have to click to use them. The Overlay tends to move about when you
resize the window and a lot of display rubbish gets left behind around
the edges."

screen shot demonstrating the problem
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tmw/ge.jpg

I'm guessing it's due to the graphics accelerator chip sw, since the
emulation works fine.

Any idea how to isolate the sw that is the problem?
Or a fix?

Note Ubuntu should release their next version this October, with X 7.1 .
I think the current version might be 6.?? 6.8? 6.9?

Is there a better mailing list to ask this question?  Maybe a developers
list?

Thanks! :)
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