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myrlin

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Stellarium Crashes

I have just installed Stellarium on my (old) Dell Dimension 3000. It uses the XF86-video-intel graphics driver.

Stellarium starts OK, but when I run a sequence, it fails with the message:

stellarium: intel_bufmgr_gem.c:1473: do_bo_emit_reloc: Assertion `offset <= bo->size - 4' failed.
Aborted

I have found references to previous  problems, which seem to be caused by the video driver, and I have tried the various fixes (installing driconf and turning off tiling, starting with commands  stellarium --graphics-system=native and opengl)

The package works perfectly on my eeepc 901.

Is there a fix or a sensible work-around for this issue?

**EDIT**

I have just read this bug report https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26015 and tried the workaround of disabling DRI by creating the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-device.conf containing the following:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "intel"
Option "DRI" "Off"
EndSection

This works, but results in very jerky graphics, and presumably affects the overall performance of my machine, so is not ideal.

Last edited by myrlin (2012-01-21 11:37:24)