[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#861630: stellarium: Stellarium does not start at all

[Tomasz Buchert]

On 02/05/17 05:26, Pascal Gervais wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2017 09:43:57 +0200
> Tomasz Buchert <tomasz at debian.org> wrote:
>
> > The message seems pretty clear to me. Do you indeed have an old GPU?
>
> Seriously, a 5 years old computer is now considered outdated? I used
> such sky observer software on an old Pentium MMX 166 MHz 20 years ago,
> but I can't with an Intel Core 2 G33 chipset? Are you serious?

Hello Pascal,
I tend to be serious when I reply in bug reports, yes.

Thank you for mentioning the GPU in question. It seems that the GPU is
then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_3100. Alex, can you
confirm that this GPU would not support necessary OpenGL stuff
(possibly relevant docs:
http://www.intel.com/assets/pdf/prodbrief/317311.pdf)?

>
> > Can you try the options provided in the message?
>
> You mean "--mesa-mode" and "--safe-mode"? Sorry, but there is no such
> options with the Stellarium package provided by Debian.

You're right, they are only available on windows, my apologies.
However, you can still run:

   LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 stellarium

to see if the software rendering works at least.

> > Cheers,
> > Tomasz

Cheers,
Tomasz
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