[Debian] Any chance of Stellarium working?

[JeffLuszcz]

Hi all,
Any chance of stellarium working under the debian port?

http://www.stellarium.org/

thanks,
Jeff

[doctorbri]

IIUC, stellarium uses openGL for video, which isn't available for the n8x0. Besides, I remember it being a fairly hefty app on my laptop, so I doubt it would run at a reasonable speed anyways.

[josiahg777]

If you're looking for planetarium software you could look into KStars... It runs decently in Penguinbait's KDE :)

http://edu.kde.org/kstars/

[TheRealBubba]

I've been downloading monthly starmaps onto myN800 (or I did back when it was dark enough at a semi-reasonable hour) & would like to see a lighweight starmap generator for the N88x0.

[JeffLuszcz]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[qole]

Debian has OpenGL working, Mesa's software rendering. But, as one would expect with 3D software rendering on a processor with no hardware video acceleration (available to us), my tests have been very disappointing. The GLGears demo runs at about 10fps.

[darethehair]

I've been downloading monthly starmaps onto myN800 (or I did back when it was dark enough at a semi-reasonable hour) & would like to see a lighweight starmap generator for the N88x0.

I am curious -- could you expand on what you mean by 'star maps'? I wrote 'Mephemeris', and it has options to display polar and equatorial star maps. It is not nearly as good as Stellarium or KStars, however :)

[Makurosu]

Stellarium seems to work, but it's a bit slow obviously. It installed an enormous number of library files. 72mb in all. The display fits the Nokia's 800x480 screen okay. I'm really not familiar with Stellarium though, so I don't know how it's supposed to behave. But it installs and runs on my N800 at least.

EDIT: Okay, it's REALLY slow. FPS=0.002422.

[slick204]

I've been using Planetarium in Garnet VM and it works great. I had it from my Visor Deluxe days :D and it's still around, but not free. There was also another astronomy program recommended in the Garnet apps thread called Astromist. KStars is nice too but slow.

[JeffLuszcz]

Very cool, thanks for testing, sounds too slow to be usable though.