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I have just downloaded this wonderful system onto my Mac OS X, but when I go on it it asks me whether I want to download something, but it won't let me, so I then quit, go back on, after a few seconds it freezes, please help me

Hello.

Could you be more specific?
What have you downloaded exactly? (zip from official site? pre release version?)
What version of osX are you using?

I downloaded it from this address
http://www.celestiaproject.net/celestia/download.html
Its a Mac OS X Version 10.4.11

So clicking the link should open a Sourceforge page and a few seconds later your download should begin... Till there all is ok?

The files are actually hosted by SourceForge, so you also should be able to download them by going to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=21302

SourceForge provides an international network of mirror servers, so it has to ask which one you want to use before the download can actually start. If your download procedure doesn't allow for this, then it can't work.

I just tried downloading the package, all went fine but there IS a problem here; after double click, the .dmg don't mount on it's own (now I could mount it using Toast mount feature) and this is not normal. I'm under 10.4.10.
Someone can confirm?

In the doubt and because my machine was up for more than 2 months now, I reboot and here the .dmg mount without problem... so from my side, all seems to work fine...

It asks me whether I want to install a 'workaround', and when I click yes it says 'Fatal Error' Please help, I think that may be the problem.

Gamb, there is no problem with the .dmg so far and what you describe is a bit odd. Do you download the .dmg successfully? your message error came when you double click the .dmg?

I'll go through what I do in steps
1: I double click on the .dmg
2: After the next window appears I then double click on the Celestia programme
3: It then comes up with a message saying 'It appears you are running Celestia on ATI Radeon 9200 hardware. Do you wish to install a workaround?
4: If I click yes it says about Fatal Error, the message reads
"There was a problem installing the workaround. You may be running from a disk image, which is write-protected. Please try copying the CelestiaResources folder to your home directory as described in the README. You can also attempt to perform the workaround manually by following the instructions in the README."
5: I then have to click Quit Celestia
6: If I say no then Celestia opens up but afetr about 30 seconds it freezes and I have to manually shut it down and then reboot.

At least a valuable information!

At this level I think only DW (dirkpitt) can tell you what's going on...

Stay tuned!

gamb wrote:I'll go through what I do in steps
1: I double click on the .dmg
2: After the next window appears I then double click on the Celestia programme
3: It then comes up with a message saying 'It appears you are running Celestia on ATI Radeon 9200 hardware. Do you wish to install a workaround?
4: If I click yes it says about Fatal Error, the message reads
"There was a problem installing the workaround. You may be running from a disk image, which is write-protected. Please try copying the CelestiaResources folder to your home directory as described in the README. You can also attempt to perform the workaround manually by following the instructions in the README."
5: I then have to click Quit Celestia
6: If I say no then Celestia opens up but afetr about 30 seconds it freezes and I have to manually shut it down and then reboot.

But man, after reading again your message, the problem is evident! You need to copy all the dmg content on you HD! Why don't you simply do that???????

Christophe (ElChristou),

Don't know about others, but I think that you are providing a great
service to your fellow "Strange-Machine" users here.

Keep up the GREAT work, my friend.

ElChristou, I have copied it to my HD

gamb wrote:ElChristou, I have copied it to my HD

And?? still have this error??

What about being a bit more explicit?? Non de Zeus!

Sorry when I said that I did mean that it still didn't work

So one in your HD, you double click the Celestia Icon and get:

"There was a problem installing the workaround. You may be running from a disk image, which is write-protected. Please try copying the CelestiaResources folder to your home directory as described in the README. You can also attempt to perform the workaround manually by following the instructions in the README."

or you just get:

It appears you are running Celestia on ATI Radeon 9200 hardware. Do you wish to install a workaround?

?

What about the Readme? Have you read it? Have you try installing the workaround by yourself?

Firstly I get
"It appears you are running Celestia on ATI Radeon 9200 hardware. Do you wish to install a workaround?"

Then if I click yes it says
"There was a problem installing the workaround. You may be running from a disk image, which is write-protected. Please try copying the CelestiaResources folder to your home directory as described in the README. You can also attempt to perform the workaround manually by following the instructions in the README."

And yes I have read the README it says
"* Edit the file "celestia.cfg" in the "CelestiaResources" folder and remove the # from the beginning of the line that says:

# IgnoreGLExtensions [ "GL_ARB_vertex_program" ]"
But when I try to do this it says that it will not save the new file

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gamb wrote:
And yes I have read the README it says
"* Edit the file "celestia.cfg" in the "CelestiaResources" folder and remove the # from the beginning of the line that says:

# IgnoreGLExtensions [ "GL_ARB_vertex_program" ]"
But when I try to do this it says that it will not save the new file

Sorry to butt in, but I have similar problems saving Celestia's
original files on my Windows system because of Celestia's permissions
entries. Don't know if this occurs on your system or not, but you can
try to save the file to ANOTHER location (anywhere you like) and then
COPY it back OVER the original Celestia file. Sometimes you can do
this to get around the permissions.

ElChristou?

Thanks, Brain-Dead

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But when I try to do this it says that it will not save the new file

Even after copying the dmg files to your HD?