openuniverse for Debian ---------------------- Openuniverse is no longer actively being maintained. Users are encouraged to use Celestia instead. Openuniverse might be removed from the archive in the future (it was and has been restored) Notice that you might want to tweak /etc/openuniverse.conf to adjust for your 3d video card (it's optimised for a GeForce card). Please send new configurations to openuniverse@packages.debian.org indicating the video card you are using. NDIVIA Issues ------------- Some users have reported issues when running with Ndivia cards (see bu "#101498: Doesn't start" and "#107044: starts and dies", available at http://bugs.debian.org/101498 and http://bugs.debian.org/107044 respectively). Unfortunately, the maintainer cannot debug these issues but it is not all too clear if they are due to a driver issue, to a library OU uses or to Openuniverse itself. There have also been reports of users with some Ndvia cards/configurations which work ok (reported: nvidia-glx 1.0.2313-1, a TNT2, and linux kernel 2.4.17) If you can help debug out this bug many users would really appreciate it. SCREENSHOTS ----------- Screenshots are taken and stored at /var/games/openuniverse/scrshots. Notice that the Debian package will not provide permissions for all users to write in that directory (and will not make the openuniverse program setgid since it has not been security audited). If you want to let all the users in the system to make screenshots when using openuniverse (and acknowledge the security issues related to the partition containing /var being filled up) do the following: $ chmod a+rwx /var/games/openuniverse/scrshots $ chmod +t /var/games/openuniverse/scrshots (i.e. set it up as a temporary directory where all users can write to) More information in the manpage (openuniverse(1)) in the section "FILES" -- Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:52:01 +0100