[OT] Astro Program

[Jim Smith]

David Galea wrote:
> Try Celestia it should work with your system
>
> On 5/1/07, *Jim Smith* <jim at oz.net <mailto:jim at oz.net>> wrote:
>
>     das wrote:
>     > Can any friend here suggest me a good program that will run on
>     Ubuntu
>     > Feisty 7.04 and help children (meant for my nephew aged 8) in
>     getting
>     > perception about the solar system, universe and these things? And
>     > something that is not vulgarly resource hungry (I have only 512
>     MB RAM
>     > with Athlon 1800+ XP).
>     >
>     > ---
>     > das
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     I have had , good luck with Kstars and Xephem. Kstars depite the name
>     runs well in Gnome. Xephem will run under any WM you can install.
>
>     Jim
>
>     YMMV
>
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I have it, just hadn't tried it. Just discovered it would not start from
the menu, so tried command line. The following was generated and
Celestia still wouldn't start.

jim at JimsBook:~$ celestia
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
  Major opcode:  143
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
  Major opcode:  143
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
nStars: 112524
jim at JimsBook:~$ KCrash: Application 'celestia' crashing...

I have not yet figured out whatever is wrong with 3d acceleration as it
works fine from the Feisty LiveCD, just not from the installed system I
have.

Keeping on plugging...........

Jim