After getting some more information on IRC, it looks like this is a Mesa bug related to whatever extension Google Earth uses for sync-to-vblank (sync-to-vblank seems to be generally working, e.g. using the vblank_mode driconf setting). It would be interesting to know if this still happens with the mesa Git master branch.
After getting some more information on IRC, it looks like this is a Mesa bug related to whatever extension Google Earth uses for sync-to-vblank (sync-to-vblank seems to be generally working, e.g. using the vblank_mode driconf setting). It would be interesting to know if this still happens with the mesa Git master branch.