Stellarium remains black

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#1

I’ve upgraded a SuSE 10.3 box to 11.0. The upgrade process unistalled Stellarium. Well, not a big deal; I reinstalled it (now v0.9.1). However, when I start it it displays the splash screen with all the information about modules loading, followed by a completely black screen. I’ve waited patiently, but nothing happens, the sky remains black.

BTW, something in the process installed the ATI fglrx driver, so I suspected this to be the cause of the problem (it had caused problems on the box before when it was running 10.3), and removed it, but that didn’t fix the problem.

My son will kill me if I don’t get Stellarium working again soon, so please help! :o

-Stefan

#2

Stellarium need 3d to work. So you will have to reinstall fglrx driver to get it work.

Can I have a look of your xorg.conf?

#3

Hi there!

I’m having a similiar issue: only with me Stellarium goes white :slight_smile:

I have ATI drivers installed and 3D acceleration working. I’ve also found this thread about the subject.

So I guess we just need to wait until a new qt4-x11 upgrade cames out. Unless someone has a better suggestion - I would really love that, since I use Stellarium A LOT!

:slight_smile:

#4

I’m having a similar problem with OpenSuSE 11. In my case Stellarium show only a white screen, and only the buttons are visible.

#5

Are you trying to use compiz-fusion? I have an ATI graphics chipset with the fglrx driver installed, but I have chosen to use the KWin window manager rather than compiz, and stellarium works fine for me. Maybe you need to drop the eye candy first.

#6

I had Stellarium working fine on computers (Thinkpad T series) with the fglrx driver, and on computers (Dell desktop & no-name) without the fglrx driver (“openSUSE default”, so to speak). I’ve upgraded some of those computers from 10.3 to 11.0. On the Thinkpad with fglrx driver, I can start Stellarium, but only under a graphical root login (starting from a root shell under a different graphical login makes the screen remain black). On the updated Dell box, Stellarium remains black, same on a freshly installed (openSUSE 11.0) iAtom/mini PC box.

For reference, here’s the xorg.conf of my freshly installed openSUSE 11.0 box:


# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2008-07-30T00:46:41+0200.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "Files"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
  FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
  InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
  InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AIGLX" "on"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
  Option       "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load         "dbe"
  Load         "type1"
  Load         "freetype"
  Load         "extmod"
  Load         "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "kbd"
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "de"
  Option       "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
  Option       "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Buttons" "9"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Name" "ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"

  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Option       "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
  DisplaySize  376 301
  HorizSync    30-83
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "19DXJ"
  Option       "DPMS"
  Option       "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
  VendorName   "YAK"
  VertRefresh  43-76
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
  Modeline      "1280x1024" 108 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "945G"
  BusID        "0:2:0"
  Driver       "intel"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option       "monitor-VGA" "Monitor[0]"
  VendorName   "Intel"
  # StarMoney didn't start with this error:
  # X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  # Googled, found a resolution:
  # http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/389147-x-error-failed-request-badalloc-insufficient-resources.html
  Option "Videoram" "65536"
  Option "Cachelines" "1980"
  # Advice from openSUSE support to add this line, in response to bug #......
  Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
#7

try launching stellarium via terminal typing

LANG=en stellarium
#8

Thanks, Penguin from Athens! :slight_smile: Someone had suggested the solution you’re proposing before, and I thought I had confirmed that it actually works for me. However, I must have forgotten to report it for this bug. Sorry.