sofasurfer Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 Now that I'm on madriva 2006 I just dowbwnloaded Celestia again. Same result...'Installation failure'. But this time when I tried to start celestia it actually did start. But then I try to maximize the screen and my session closes down and a new session starts. So I tried to drag the screnn bigger and that worked. So what could be happening now? I'm not complaining cause, like I said, it works so far. Just wondering. I'll try using it after work to see if all is well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 Celestia needs openGL enabled to run (via your graphics driver). Is it so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 It definetely sounds like a graphics driver problem. I had simmilar experience with a software I can't remember now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofasurfer Posted March 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 Celestia needs openGL enabled to run (via your graphics driver). Is it so? My graphics card supports opengl. How do I know if its enabled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 Open up a terminal su to root and type (I think it's better to do it as root): glxgears -> su root glxgears -------- You should get well over a 1000 (1800>) if gl is enabled. I may be wrong about the number, but it should run smootlhy and crispy p.s. Have you installed 3d drivers for your graphics card? If you haven't, then you don't have hardware GL enabled. glxgears are to test the gl performance if you have installed the 3d drivers and you have a suspicion that they are not working properly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofasurfer Posted March 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 (edited) I almost accomplished the installation of IA32 driver last night but will definately get it tonight. Question... Why is it nessessary to have the kernel source installed in order to setup the IA32 driver? It says most setups already have it but I do not, so I must install it. Also, when doing a 'urpmi kernel-source' it gives me an option of choosing one of three packages. Which do I choose? Edited April 1, 2006 by sofasurfer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 You need the kernel-sources that exactly match your running kernel. To see what that is: $ cat /proc/version You should get an output that looks similar to this: $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.11-7.mm.18mdk (peroyvind@n4.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux 10.1 3.4.1-4mdk)) #2 Mon May 23 06:13:06 CEST 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofasurfer Posted April 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 You need the kernel-sources that exactly match your running kernel. Crashdamage... Please see my newer thread 'Pre-NVidia cofiguration problems' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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