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Hoorah! So I messed around with files and it was definitely the medres/earth.png that was a problem. so I loaded it into gimp and halved the image size and that fixed it. I'm guessing it may have been a max texture size. thanks for all your help john and cartrite.

wow thanks for all the assistance here. I'm quite overwhelmed you went to that much trouble. So I went through all these, learnt a few gimp tricks on the way, but still no joy. keeps crashing as soon as earth comes into view. the Open GL info says: Vendor: Tungsten Graphics Inc Renderer: Mesa DRI In...

So I figured I can press escape during the intro animation to halt it. from there I can use the program and it's great. Except I can't go near Earth. All other planets are fine.

Might anyone know if I can change anything with the earth model that may fix this?

regards
rob

Hi, sorry for not getting back sooner. I've installed a couple of different linux distros since, much to the same outcome.
the info I get back regarding the graphics is:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)

thanks

Hi there, I've just installed my first linux (Linux Mint 7 gnome) on my really old laptop (emachines m5116 - 750mb - intel extreme2 gfx). The program boots up fine, the spash animation starts from Sol, zooms out tracks towards earth and then the program quits. I've installed every version of celesti...