celestia and ati-drivers [hacks, options and recent success]

seringen · Last edited by seringen on Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:21 am; edited 11 times in total

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Summary
Anyone new to this thread, yes, ati-drivers and celestia don't like each other.
Certain combinations of glibc, xorg, celestia and ati-drivers may occasionally work for you, and may occassionally fail. Currently, the ~x86 drivers are working for me.

The most recent xorg-x11-6.8.2 and ati-drivers-8.10.19 work just swimmingly with out any changes to the default. Hopefully this is the same case for everyone else. I don't know about any versions earlier than xorg-x11-6.8.2, but my suspicion is that any 6.8.* should work. Good luck, and hopefully this is the last of this!

Options
The only option for older drivers/servers is a decent hack from Wedge_, but it's still a hack.

seringen · Last edited by seringen on Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:19 am; edited 1 time in total

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42756 (fixed)

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56720 (fixed)

MaxDamage · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:33 pm Post subject:

app-sci/celestia-1.3.2_pre20040731-r1
media-video/ati-drivers-3.11.1
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2

Celestia still crashes.
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seringen · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:41 am Post subject:

yeah it's still broken for me. i'm waiting for a real point release

ikshaar · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:16 pm Post subject:

Well 1.3.2 was released today ... i hope the ebuild can be fixed soon.. waiting for the GTk+2 interface

Just saw screenshot, program looks gorgeous...
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MaxDamage · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:57 pm Post subject:

The ebuild is now in portage. But no luck, it fails to run as previous versions did.

media-video/ati-drivers-3.11.1
app-sci/celestia-1.3.2
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2
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seringen · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject:

yeah doesn't work for me, either

seringen · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject: works for me

I thought i was running the latest ati-drivers, but i wasn't. Slashdot alerted me to the fact that i wasn't running ~x86 for the ati drivers

MaxDamage · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: works for me

seringen · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject:

here's the output of emerge -pv celestia and emerge info. maybe it's my ~x86 glibc (i can't downgrade so i can't help you there -- i wouldn't recommend updating to ~x86 for glibc if you can help it, i only do it because i used to run ~x86 for everything until i started having too many problems but things really break if you downgrade glibc)

If you are wondering about my cflags, I used acovea

morfic · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 31

maxdamage: can you try his kernel version and if it still crashes (and you are willing to go ~x86 glibc) try glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1 ?

your input would be greatly appreciated

MaxDamage · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:

seringen · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:06 am Post subject:

just fyi, i use ntpl, prelinking and 2.6 kernel headers (2.6.8.1). prelinking won't affect you anyway, since you can't prelink ati-drivers, and it wouldn't affect it anyway.

good luck!

MaxDamage · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:55 am Post subject:

I've just installed sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r3. Celestia crashed again.
Tried

MaxDamage · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:29 pm Post subject:

No luck. I installed the new glibc

seringen · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject:

turns out i run a more ~86 than i remember, but nothing jumps out at me as being what's causing your problem

seringen · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:07 pm Post subject:

well after some updates it broke again. So it COULD work, and i'm going to try building it again and see what's going on with it.

MaxDamage · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:11 pm Post subject:

Good luck with it. I'll be waiting for news and helping on what I can.
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seringen · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:33 am Post subject: resolved!

the latest ati drivers solve the problem for me again. hope it works for you!

MaxDamage · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: resolved!

seringen · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] app-sci/celestia-1.3.2 -debug -debug -debug +gnome +gtk -kde 0 kB

I run gnome, too. I usually use the kde flag, but it errors out about arts, and since I don't like arts I just USE"-kde" for it. (but that doesn't sound like a problem you have anyway. It works for me under fluxbox, too.

seringen · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:03 am Post subject:

ati-drivers-3.14.1 seem to work fine with celestia, so hopefully they work for everyone else!

Wedge_ · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:56 am Post subject:

Celestia used to work fine with the older driver versions, but all of the newer versions haven't worked for me. As a workaround, try uncommenting this line in /usr/share/celestia/celestia.cfg:

theoakwise · n00b Joined: 15 May 2004 Posts: 37

I get pretty bad flickering whenever I have stars turned on. Is this a celestia thing, or a celestia vs. ati thing?

seringen · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:47 am Post subject: