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

[Pascal Gervais]

On Tue, 2 May 2017 19:07:26 +0200
Tomasz Buchert <tomasz at debian.org> wrote:

> 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 Seriously, a 5 years old computer is now considered outdated?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.

Hi,

I was only surprised, sorry for overreacting.

> 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)?

Yes, it's the right GPU. Who is Alex?

> >  
> > > 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.

With "LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 stellarium" the whole system freeze at:
Trying to copy ssystem.ini to /home/pascal/.stellarium/data/ssystem.ini

And I have to kill stellarium on an other TTY. I attach the output.

> Cheers,
> Tomasz

-- 
Pascal  ><((((©>
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