broken menus at Ubuntu Linux 9.04/9.10 with intel-2.8.1/2.9

[Ivan Ivanoff]

[Status]
Karmic: Fix not released. The bugfix from Mesa is available in https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa since version 7.8.0~git20100130.996fd614.
Lucid: Fix Released

[Workaround]
Disable texture tiling with driconf. See comment #35.

[Original Report]
I have broken menus at my Ubuntu LInux 9.04 with latest intel-2.8.1 driver. They are just like mirrored. And dialog too. How to fix it?
Here how it looks like:
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3789/95948752.png

[Matthew Gates (matthew-porpoisehead)]

Wow, this is a new one to me. Looks like a video driver problem similar, but interestingly different to the ATI driver problems.

It would be super-helpful if you can try the latest SVN build with with the option: --graphics-system, like this:

  stellarium --graphics-system=native

And see if that makes a difference. Please also try:

  stellarium --graphics-system=opengl

This instructs QT to use a different back end store for textures or something, and might help. The command line option was added only a few days ago - previously the mode --graphics-system=raster was hard-coded.

[Matt (mwharrison)]

I am seeing the same problem on Kubuntu 9.10 alpha 6 (and have seen it for some time). My graphics driver is as follows:

$ modinfo i915
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.31-10-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko
srcversion: 367BDEFB156376C94762D0C
vermagic: 2.6.31-10-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 586
(output trimmed)

I tried the commands you suggested with Stellarium 0.10.2 as packaged as standard.

If it helps, I can try the new build. Could you point me to the version I need to build and let me know any more information on my system you need from me.

P.S. I would class this bug as important, as it's imposable to set my location due to the corruption.

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

The development build can be found in Stellarium's SVN repository at SourceForge.net:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/develop (this is a web page, not the repository itself :)

I think that the latest revision (5040) is stable, if you don't count the plugins, so you can try it out.

[Matt (mwharrison)]

I built the trunk version (5040) and tried to run it.
On running, it printed some comments to the screen, but after
Creating GUI ...
it locked my machine up such that only the mouse responded (even caps lock didn't work).
I then rebooted and tried the two suggested commands. They both report
Bus error (core dumped)
Something must be upset, as now even just trying to run the program without flags reports Bus error (core dumped).
/usr/bin/stellarium (the standard Ubuntu version) runs as before.

I'll try to have another look tomorrow to make sure there isn't anything obviously wrong with the way I built/installed it.

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

You can find Stellarium's log file in ~/.stellarium/log.txt - it contains all the console messages.

Make sure that you have all the dependencies installed:
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Build_Dependencies

What version of Qt is used by Ubuntu 9.10? 4.6? There've been some complaints about it in the mailing list.

[Matt (mwharrison)]

I deleted my build directory and started again. During make, I noted the following:
-- Found Qt-Version 4.5.2
-- Performing Test ICONV_SECOND_ARGUMENT_IS_CONST
-- Performing Test ICONV_SECOND_ARGUMENT_IS_CONST - Failed
Everything else seemed happy.

I installed the build dependencies originally using the command line from the wiki.

It seems to run now with both flags, though they both give the same broken menus. I've attached the opengl log, as I'm not sure it's starting opengl properly.

I assume it's complaining about missing resources because I haven't compiled any of the other directories in the checkout yet.

[Matt (mwharrison)]

Attached logs with native flag for completeness.

[Matthew Gates (matthew-porpoisehead)]

There are several errors in the log which don't look anything to do
with video card problems - e.g. not able to find landscape files,
catalogs and so on.

Try running from the build area - it is possible the make install is
not working for some reason. To run from the build directory do this:

cd [stellarium build root]
builds/unix/src/stellarium

The [stellarium build root] is the directory that you find the README,
Doxyfile and so on

You won't get the i18n translations, but apart from that everything
should work without needing to install files to your /usr/local area
or whatever prefix you used when you did the cmake stage.

2009/9/19 Matt <email address hidden>:
> Attached logs with native flag for completeness.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Log file using native flag"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32059773/log.txt
>
> --
> broken menus at Ubuntu LInux 9.04 with intel-2.8.1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426417
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of
> Stellarium Development, which is subscribed to Stellarium.
>
> Status in Stellarium: New
>
> Bug description:
> I have broken menus at my Ubuntu LInux 9.04 with latest intel-2.8.1 driver. They are just like mirrored. And dialog too. How to fix it?
> Here how it looks like:
> http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3789/95948752.png
>

[Matt (mwharrison)]

Running from the build area cleared most of the warnings, but the corruption is still there . I've attached the log.

[Fabien Chéreau (xalioth)]

Hi Matt,
Do you also have the same behaviour with --graphics-system=native ?
Fabien

[Matthew Gates (matthew-porpoisehead)]

There's more than one Matt here. I'm not the one with the problem.

2009/9/24 Fabien Chéreau <email address hidden>:
> Hi Matt,
> Do you also have the same behaviour with  --graphics-system=native ?
> Fabien
>
> --
> broken menus at Ubuntu LInux 9.04 with intel-2.8.1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426417
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of
> Stellarium Development, which is subscribed to Stellarium.
>

[Matt (mwharrison)]

I get the same behaviour with --graphics-system=native. I've attached the log.

[Matt (mwharrison)]

I also need to add that I am seeing more screen problems on this build than 0.10.2. I've attached a screen shot.

The menu corruption is the same between builds. The sky problem is new.

This was captured running with the native flag. I see the same with the opengl flag.

[Paweł T. Jochym (jochym)]

I have the same problem on karmic beta running on thinkpad X300 (intel graphics).

[Daniel Serpell (daniel-serpell)]

As I said in bug #445196 , this bug not only affects Stellarium, you can also see the same bug in the menus in blender, selecting and unselecting menus in blender sometimes leaves mangled pixels in the background (try pressing menu item "add" and then slowly go down with the pointer so the submenus are shown). I also have more corruption while *not* running compiz.

This should be reasigned to xserver-xorg-video-intel package.

[Sancho Panza (prashanthr-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

@Daniel: I do not have the problem you describe in Blender, but I do have the problem being discussed here in stellarium.
I have the Intel GMA X3100 graphics chip. So it seems that the blender issue is seperate from stellarium issue.

Cheers,

[Sancho Panza (prashanthr-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Should be bug status be changed from "confirmed" to "incomplete"? Are we sure which
package the bug is related to? Is it connected to the any specific video driver or is it truly
a stellarium bug? Dont we need more complete info on what causes this bug?

[Tanmoy (tanmoylaskar)]

I can confirm this bug. I have a laptop with an Intel GM965 chipset. I get the same corrupted menus as the original poster. Blender does not seem to run happily on my system, so I cannot comment on whether the issues are system-wide. Starting stellarium with --graphics-system-native or --graphics-system-opengl does not help. I have not built it from source, but have installed the binaries from the karmic repositories. I would like to add that Stellarium worked beautifully in my Jaunty installation.

[JackB (jackbauer-deactivatedaccount)]

I can confirm as reported here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8302768#post8302768

Neither stellarium --graphics-system=native or stellarium --graphics-system=opengl worked.

I'm sad :(

[KevinM (kevbert1)]

This bug also appears using ATI and Nvidia graphics. A separate bug report is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+bug/480553 The bug may be due to a modification in the opengl libraries.

[Daniel Serpell (daniel-serpell)]

Hi,

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 09:48 +0000, KevinM wrote:
> This bug also appears using ATI and Nvidia graphics. A separate bug
> report is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-
> graphics-drivers-180/+bug/480553 The bug may be due to a modification in
> the opengl libraries.
>

No, that is a different bug. The Nvidia one is missing screen refresh,
so you keep seeing the previous image and parts of the new one.

The Intel bug is a "stripping" of the textures, probably related to the
way that the textured are stored in memory.

[crchtiger (crchtiger)]

same issue with intel graphic card

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

menus in stellarium are garbled

[Rick Pontefract (rjpontefract)]

I have the same problem with garbled menus and dialogs on a clean install of 9.10 and the following graphics card;

Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller rev 7

On my other machine with intel graphics, it works fine:

Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller rev 2

[cyberorg (jigish-gohil)]

This affects openSUSE 11.2 also, does not matter what graphics hardware is used.

[Matthew Gates (matthew-porpoisehead)]

cyberorg: I struggle to believe it's the same on hardware types - it's _always_ been hardware specific in the dozens, if not hundreds of cases I've looked at. Please can you double check?

I would like to see a list of gfx cards you've tried with driver type and version, and a screenshot from each. Note that there are different categories of problem - some affect the intel cards, others the SIS cards, and still others the ATI cards (especially the ATI cards).

They look quite different once you've seen a few of them, but you might not easily distinguish them if you are not used to it.

Mostly the nvidia cards are OK, although I had some weird dropping of frame rates when swapping between fullscreen and windowed on one card.

[crchtiger (crchtiger)]

here's my screenshot and my video card, i hope it helps

system is ubuntu 9.10 (upgrade from 9.04)

notebook dell 1318

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

http://www.imagecoast.com/images/crchtiger/creenshot.jpg

[Paweł T. Jochym (jochym)]

The problem is exactly the same with intel graphics on 9.10 Karmic.
In my case it is Lenovo X300
 (Same chip as above: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c))

[Rick Pontefract (rjpontefract)]

I installed Karmic on my EeePC 1000H and stellarium works fine. The video card is:

Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3

So that's two out of three of my intel based machines which work fine and one that doesn't.

[RodGer (rodger)]

Can you (somebody who has the problem described) please upload a screenshot of the settings windows (not just the menus).
I have a problem which I'm not sure if it is the same. My menus are ok, no problem. But I have problem with every window that can open inside stellarium.

Please check the screanshot and tell me if you think it is the same problem.

[crchtiger (crchtiger)]

i have the same issue, both with menus and settings window

[manuti (manuti)]

same issue, both with menus and settings window

[alsnowdon (allensnowdon)]

Same thing with a Lenovo Y430 Intel Mobile 4 Series graphics 1280x800

[matangdilis (matangdilis)]

Same problem with menus and dialog with Toshiba satellite laptop, with an intel965GM video. But it's fine in a desktop with nvidia graphics.

The ghosting of the menus and dialogs reminds me of interlacing problems in videos. Any solution in sight?

[Davidiam (hectorjerezano)]

I Found the solution using driconf and add a different setting for the application stellarium , disable texture tiling for it!.

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

I have attached a screenshot in English in case someone needs it.

The "driconf" package can be installed with the Synaptic package manager or by opening a terminal and typing:

sudo apt-get install driconf

It will be added in the menus as System->Preferences->3D Acceleration.

You can disable texture tiling globally, or you can use the Application settings field to add a profile and disable texture tiling only for Stellarium.

Could everyone who has reported this bug try this workaround and report the results here?

[Aaron LaCluyze (mrbook2)]

Just tried the work-around on my system (Ubuntu 9.10, 64 bit on Lenovo R61 with Intel video.) It seems to work perfectly.

I installed driconf via apt, and added rule for the executable "stellarium" to disable texture tiling. My menus and icons look great now. I can finally use Stellarium again.

[Chris Giltnane (chris-giltnane)]

yep that workaround worked for me as well Intel chip on Lenovo T61.

[Ben Romer (bromer)]

The work-around succeeds on my Vaio NR with Intel 965GM.

[Tanmoy (tanmoylaskar)]

Thanks! The workaround succeeds on my Dell Inspiron 1420 with Intel 965GM.

[Götz Christ (g-christ)]

I don't have this problem at all.

Kubuntu 9.10 with the default config and up to date packages.
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

[manuti (manuti)]

ok, works for me too.
-------------------------------------
ubuntu 9.10 amd64
kernel 2.6.31-16
Intel Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5670 @ 1.80GHz
Intel Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller

[Fuerteventura (fuerteventura)]

It works perfect using driconf.
---
Acer Aspire AS3810T
Ubuntu 9.10 64 bits

[Paweł T. Jochym (jochym)]

It works on ThinkPad X300 as well.
I am not sure but the performance looks the same (poor 4-7FPS).
BTW is there a way to speed it up? It is usable but sluggish.

[Sebastian Thürrschmidt (thuerrschmidt)]

The driconf workaround thankfully fixed my broken Stellarium menus and dialogs with an Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03).

I created an application setting, using Stellarium as the appliation path and stellarium as the exectuable name (path not needed, no shell script here). Unfortuntely, in driconf's Application Settings window, the Cancel and OK buttons are in the wrong positions, which made me click the wrong one and lose my newly entered settings the first time round. I guess this deviation from the HIG should be reported as a defect in driconf. In fact, the dialog shouldn't have OK and Cancel buttons at all, it should have a single Close button like most other GTK dialogs.

[matangdilis (matangdilis)]

It worked on a Toshiba Sattelite with Intel GM965 video and running on a Karmic AMD64. Thanks Davidiam.

But when I tried to change the location and clicked on the Country dropdown menu in the location dialog box, my system froze (keyboard, pad, and usb mouse didn't respond 8-o) and I have to do a hard power down. Hopefully it's unrelated. I managed to change the location via search box.

[Sebastian Thürrschmidt (thuerrschmidt)]

I'm seeing the same problem as matangdilis, i.e. clicking on the Country dropdown in Location will freeze my display. I can still move the mouse pointer, but I can't click anything. Have to log in from another machine and reboot from the command line. Just restarting gmd won't do.

The Country dropdown works fine on my other machine, which has an Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) and where Stellarium doesn't need the workaround. So it seems these two issues are related after all.

I haven't tried any other dropdown lists so far.

[Tanmoy (tanmoylaskar)]

I had the same problem as matangdilis and Sebastian have reported above - and I thought they were unrelated too! The first time I fiddled with driconf and opened stellarium my display froze and I had to power off using the power button on my Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop. After reboot things work fine, though.

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 (32 bit).

[alsnowdon (allensnowdon)]

RE: Bogdan's fix (post # 35). Thanks Bogdan, that fix worked for my Lenovo Y-430. Sure nice to have Stellarium usable!!!

[Sancho Panza (prashanthr-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks Davidiam and Bogdan,
    Disabling texture tiling using driconf fixed the problem on my Thinkpad T61 with intel graphics.

Thanks,

[Davide Totaro (dvd100)]

Problem not present on a Radeon 9600.

It's present on a Intel gma4500hd, solved disabling texture tiling as suggested ;)

[Rob (robklg)]

In driconf i fixed it with this driconf-workaround. However, driconf asks for the 'executable', using /usr/bin/stellarium didn't work, only when i used 'stellarium' (not the full path to the executable), it worked.

[Brian Shaw (perturbedpenguin)]

I also confirm this when using integrated Intel graphics.

[Sam Morris (yrro)]

In Stellarium, the user interface textures are corrupted on my Samsung
Q45 laptop.

Screenshot attached. If you move the mouse to the bottom left of the
screen and hover over the panels, they should expand and you should see
the corruption.

This is with xserver 1.6.5, intel 2.9.1, drm 2.4.15 and linux 2.6.32.

[Sam Morris (yrro)]

You can see a screenshot at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=Screenshot.png;att=1;bug=556540 and see xorg/kernel logs at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=556540.

[in8sworld (n8berry)]

My experience was that when hovering over the icons in the pop-out menus some of them would have the interlaced problem as shown in previous screenshots, and that any window opened by clicking the icon would be completely interlaced (and un-usable). Installing dri-conf and disabling texture tiling solved it for me. I'm so happy I can use it again!

Ubuntu 9.10 on HP dc5700mt

Linux 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.31-17-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko
description: Intel Graphics
author: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
srcversion: 38E496DF82FA4C6DCD80B4F
vermagic: 2.6.31-17-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 586

[Eric Anholt (eric-anholt)]

Looks like it might be a texture tiling problem. If so, you can work around it for now by disabling texture tiling in driconf, at the expense of performance in general.

[almos (almos-dinnyes)]

I have the same problem also on OpenSuse 11.2 (I have also intel card)

[almos (almos-dinnyes)]

How can I "Installing dri-conf and disabling texture"?

[Jacky (jacky728)]

I have the same problem on Kubuntu 9.10

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

@jacky: Doesn't the driconf workaround work? It's described in comments 34-35 above.

[Aitor Pazos (aitorpazos)]

The driconf trick fix the menus issues but the landscape texture is not
displayed.

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Aitor,

Please read the comments of this old bug report at SourceForge for a workaround for the landscape problem:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=454373&aid=2722249&group_id=48857

Basically, you need to delete or modify ~/.config/Trolltech.conf

[Jacky (jacky728)]

Hi Bogdan,

I have removed the two line "com.trolltech.Qt.QStyleFactoryInterface%3A\..."
in my ~/.config/Trolltech.conf and even delete the file, the problem still
exists. I can not clearly see the horizontal and vertical menus in
Stellarium, which looks like three or more images overlapping together (see
may uploaded image)

2010/1/17 Bogdan Marinov <email address hidden>

> Aitor,
>
> Please read the comments of this old bug report at SourceForge for a
> workaround for the landscape problem:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=454373&aid=2722249&group_id=48857
>
> Basically, you need to delete or modify ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
>
> ** Bug watch added: SourceForge.net Tracker #2722249
> http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2722249
>
> ** Bug watch removed: SourceForge.net Tracker #2722249
> http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2722249
>
> --
> broken menus at Ubuntu Linux 9.04/9.10 with intel-2.8.1/2.9
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426417
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in Stellarium: Confirmed
> Status in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> I have broken menus at my Ubuntu LInux 9.04 with latest intel-2.8.1 driver.
> They are just like mirrored. And dialog too. How to fix it?
> Here how it looks like:
> http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3789/95948752.png
>
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[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Jacky,

My last comment wasn't addressed at you. Please re-read the two comments above my last. Actually, read comments 34 and 35 above for a workaround for the menu buttons/dialog windows bug.

And please, either log into Launchpad to answer, or delete the text of the notification e-mail if you reply to it.

[Aitor Pazos (aitorpazos)]

Solved, thank you Bogdan.
Just to make it clear:
     -I solved the menus problem disabling texture tiling with driconf
application
     -Menus started to work fine but the landscape was not rendered
correctly
     -Then I deleted ~/.config/Trolltech.conf to solve the landscape
drawing problem
     -Everything works fine now.

[David Fraser (davidf)]

I had the same bug on my Inspiron 1525 laptop with an Intel GM965/GL960 card.
I am suspicious that this is due to the Virtual screen size in the graphics card being set to 8192x8192
Previously I have always set this to a maximum of 2048x2048 or less in xorg.conf, to prevent running out of memory on the card and getting corruption.
However these settings seem to be ignored on Karmic; with the following configuration:
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device "Card0"
        Monitor "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport 0 0
                Depth 24
                Virtual 2048 2048
        EndSubSection
EndSection

I still get this:

davidf@golg:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192

(Note that my boot up resolution is smaller, at 1280x800, so that's not what's adjusting the maximum)

[David Fraser (davidf)]

More info at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/426417

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

It may be of interest that I do only see half the corruptions here. The menus along the borders are fine. The dialog boxes that can be opened via those windows (e.g. "Location Window" (F6)) are corrupted exactly like those in Sam Morris's screenshot.

Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)

ubuntu karmic + xorg-edgers ppa:
mesa (7.8.0~git20100121.4736e1cb-0ubuntu0sarvatt3~karmic) karmic; urgency=low
  * Checkout from git 20100121 (master branch) up to commit
    4736e1cbbd4e2cf7fa4c67a728d520edc67e920f

[Eric Anholt (eric-anholt)]

(not fixed by the pbo teximage tiling fix)

[Eric Anholt (eric-anholt)]

New piglit case:
commit 73026d3cfa2e47444ebb8dc5854af6f0ae10069a
Author: Eric Anholt <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Jan 30 15:05:44 2010 -0800

    pbo-teximage-tiling-2: Companion to pbo-teximage-tiling for the other path.

    The other one caught a bug in the zero copy path, while this one
    catches the blit path.

    Bug #26008

Mesa fix:
commit 22bbc979944084ddffbb2c42a8178e172beaece0
Author: Eric Anholt <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Jan 30 15:11:09 2010 -0800

    intel: Respect texture tiling when doing a PBO blit teximage upload.

    Bug #26008. Fixes piglit pbo-teximage-tiling-2.

[Sivasubramaniam S (autosiva)]

I tried the workaround shown in comment #35 and Stellarium seems to work fine.

Thanks!

[Coke15 (doubleoseven84)]

Comment #35 fixed my problem as well. Intel 965GM video card on acer laptop. Thank You.

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

The bug was in Mesa.

[GreyGeek (greygeek)]

pc: Sony VAIO VGN-FW140E notebook, 3GB RAM, Intel Mobile 4 Graphics Chip (GM45), i915 video driver.

Running with the 32bit Kubuntu Jaunty on this PC both Stellarium 0.10.1 and 0.10.2 worked well.

I created another partition and install the 64bit Kubuntu Karmic. Running Stellarium 0.10.2 the menus were garbled but the star display and navigation worked well.

Yesterday I scrubbed both Karmic and Jaunty off and gave Kubuntu Lucid Lynx the entire drive. Today I installed Stellarium 0.10.3 from the repository. The menu and configuration dialog distortions issue is fixed. However, the stars do NOT display. Using the Driconf app to disable tilling did not help. The menu showed FPS and FOV data, which fluctuated as I moved the mouse and scrolled the wheel in and out, but, ... NO stars!

I decided to do a search on Jupiter. Suddenly, the Sun appeared, along with circles representing the location of the planets. Jupiter's location was bracketed. I hit the space bar and zoomed in. Jupiter appeared, along with its four major moons! Labled for stars that had lables began appearing, BUT, no dots or other graphical characters represent stars appear. I can see the milky way, M31 and a few other objects, but no stars appear. If I search for a star, say, Lyra, a circle appears, I hit the space bar and it centers, I zoom in and it appears. Off to the left is a small circle with the lable "Smoke Ring ..." . I click on it and zoom in and I can see the image of the smoke ring..

Zoom back out and face south, with the horizon barely showing on the bottom and I can see the Sun and small circles around where the planets should be located, their labels, but no planets or stars, unless I select one and zoom in on it.

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

GreyGeek, the issue you describes is this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/514545

In Stellarium's configuration file, set "use_glshaders = false" under "[main]".