Celestia Space Simulator

[Michael Miles]

JD wrote:
>
> On 09/21/2010 07:00 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>    
>>    On 09/21/2010 06:22 PM, Michael Miles wrote:
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>>> Nvidia 9400 Gt
>>>        
>> Since Celestia is graphics intensive, you might
>> want to check this out.  I've read there were
>> some problems associated with Nvidia drivers...
>> (being proprietary)  but I could be wrong.  I
>> personally had problems with Nvidia way back
>> then and it was really bad - I since stopped
>> buying mobos with Nvidia, but that is just my
>> experience which probably does not amount to
>> a hill of beans ;)
>>
>> I have an ASUS P5GC-MX/1333:
>>      
>>> Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ (Graphics)
>>>        
>> Try Stellarium or other graphics intensive
>> apps and see if they crash or not?
>>
>> I doubt that SELinux is the issue...
>>
>>      
> I tried stellarium. Its not as bad a cpu hog as celestia.
> I also edited ~/.stellarium/config.ini
> and set Location to San Diego, USA  and it belched:
> Warning: location "San Diego, USA" is unknown
>
> Got the same warning using  San Diego, California, USA
>
> So, it seems I cannot see the view from San Diego.
>
>
>    
Well, I installed it as superuser but it will not start from there
It will start as Regular user, very weird.

I am going to see  if I can replicate the crash conditions
Michael