After reading your post and looking at the box's resources, I feel it might be a lack of memory. Part of the ram memory is used for the on-board graphics chip set. I have orbiter running very well in wine on another box, using an nvidia graphics card and opensuse 11.3.
I am running orbiter using wine in opensuse 11.1. Orbiter runs, but the objects, such as the shuttle on the launch pad appears mostly transparent with only a few of its parts visible.
The box is an hp pavilion a1130n with integrated ati graphics
1.3 mesa 7.2 driver (dri r300 project)
It locks up...
Thank you velcroman5! The link provided the info for the fix. I edited the nvidia.conf file in /etc/modprobe.d/ and added the line begining with 'options......', saved the file and rebooted. The virtual video card was then listed in the orbiter control panel under video. I was able to run...
I am running opensuse 11.3 with an nvidia 5200 card. I installed wine and followed the instructions in this post:
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=16401
I did not install ogla. I run wine orbiter and see the orbiter control panel, but it crashes when I try to run a scenario. I...