There's been some discussion on OpenUniverse (I tried it, but had difficulties compiling in that many standard paths for headers were not put in the source) and by accident I was checking out a recent issue on the focus on linux website last night, and it mentioned a prog called 'celestia' which is purported to be a 3d space simulator prog.
Anyway, I fetched the tarball last night, and compiled/installed it. I am pretty sure all the required 3d libraries are there (libglu[t], Mesa, and so forth). Configure went fairly well - it did bomb out on an error that it couldn't find some gnome shell file (it was looking in /usr/local/celestia/lib, which is mind-boggling, as it's not installed yet.) make/make install goes fine. The program appears to start OK, and I can just move the little planet (which is doubled) around a bit with the mouse, but that's about it. In a few seconds, my computer is locked up tight. Mouse cursor is there, and is movable, but I can't do anything else. I can't kill X. All I can do is shut the power off and reboot the computer. My graphics card is a Matrox G450 with 16 megs of RAM. Am I just out of luck with this card? It's supposed to be able to have some 3d abilities (probably not nearly as good as GeForce or what have you) but I haven't been at all successful with 3d on this card as of yet. Any ideas?
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