Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 02:09:09 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other hand, performs quite well, even with my legacy Nvidia card. Only problem is that most of the planet images are blank, simply a light disk. Must be missing something. Where do get the data? Installed off Sid. The source code contains the images. After download, just copy the content of directory 'textures' to /usr/share/celestia/textures. It was working in Etch out-of-the-box, though. I did the same after upgrade. I haven't checked the bug reports since then. Hi, just in case you don't know it already, official add-ons are to be found on http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ A lot of stuff is also available through celestia forum, but anything not the above repository shouldn't be considered stable/safe. It turns out that the installation I had was left over from somewhere, i.e. the original knoppix CD. Installing the package (testing now) and the non- free common with all the data got it working correctly. My daughter's telescope is not something KStars could control. That program runs too slow to really be pleasant to use. Celestia's animations move the way they should. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other hand, performs quite well, even with my legacy Nvidia card. Only problem is that most of the planet images are blank, simply a light disk. Must be missing something. Where do get the data? Installed off Sid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
David Baron wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other hand, performs quite well, even with my legacy Nvidia card. Only problem is that most of the planet images are blank, simply a light disk. Must be missing something. Where do get the data? Installed off Sid. I've used kstars, I didn't find it slow at all.. What exactly was slow about it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
On 01/12/09 13:34, Daryl Styrk wrote: David Baron wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other hand, performs quite well, even with my legacy Nvidia card. Only problem is that most of the planet images are blank, simply a light disk. Must be missing something. Where do get the data? Installed off Sid. I've used kstars, I didn't find it slow at all.. What exactly was slow about it? Maybe he needs more RAM? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:22 +0200 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other hand, performs quite well, even with my legacy Nvidia card. Only problem is that most of the planet images are blank, simply a light disk. Must be missing something. Where do get the data? Installed off Sid. The source code contains the images. After download, just copy the content of directory 'textures' to /usr/share/celestia/textures. It was working in Etch out-of-the-box, though. I did the same after upgrade. I haven't checked the bug reports since then. -- Nyizsa. http://nyizsa.uni.cc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/09 13:34, Daryl Styrk wrote: David Baron wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other hand, performs quite well, even with my legacy Nvidia card. Only problem is that most of the planet images are blank, simply a light disk. Must be missing something. Where do get the data? Installed off Sid. I've used kstars, I didn't find it slow at all.. What exactly was slow about it? Maybe he needs more RAM? I should add I haven't tried with a telescope interfaced with it. Maybe that's the slow end.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
Nyizsnyik Ferenc a écrit : On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:22 +0200 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other hand, performs quite well, even with my legacy Nvidia card. Only problem is that most of the planet images are blank, simply a light disk. Must be missing something. Where do get the data? Installed off Sid. The source code contains the images. After download, just copy the content of directory 'textures' to /usr/share/celestia/textures. It was working in Etch out-of-the-box, though. I did the same after upgrade. I haven't checked the bug reports since then. Hi, just in case you don't know it already, official add-ons are to be found on http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ A lot of stuff is also available through celestia forum, but anything not the above repository shouldn't be considered stable/safe. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:22 +0200 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other hand, performs quite well, even with my legacy Nvidia card. Only problem is that most of the planet images are blank, simply a light disk. Must be missing something. Where do get the data? Installed off Sid. Ever tried Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org/)? You can find it in the repositories. Well worth downloading if you're into astronomy. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.
On 01/12/09 18:52, Graham wrote: [snip] Ever tried Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org/)? You can find it in the repositories. Well worth downloading if you're into astronomy. My son loves to play with Stellarium. (Achingly slow on a 128MB machine, though...) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
