Stellarium

I get a white screen when starting Stellarium. I'm running Linux Mint 17.2.

Asked by mhampton

I just installed Stellarium on my desktop PC running Linux Mint 17.2. When the program starts, I get a white screen with nothing identifiable except the menus. If I click around on the screen, I will by coincidence hit something and the description will pop up on the screen. How do I get a black sky and white stars (and other appropriately colored items) on my monitor?

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Best Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#1

Seems your hardware is not in requirements list of minimal parameters. In any case I'm not telepath and I can't see Stellarium's log on your computer (it contains data about problems when Stellarium starts).

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mhampton (mhampton71) said : 		#2

Looks like I will need to either get a new graphics card or abandon Stellarium and just use one of the star mapping packages on my smart phone. Thanks.

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mhampton (mhampton71) said : 		#3

Thanks Alexander Wolf, that solved my question.