Comment 7 for bug 68724

Same scenario. Crash occurs on startup. Stellarium seg faults and dumps core. Here's the output from the console:

In addition, the screen resolution drops changes, and does not returns to the original. I have to reset it manually.

I have an nvidia card (a TNT2 Riva).

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[ This is Stellarium 0.8.1 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Fabien Chereau et al ]
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Attempting to use an existing older config file.
WARNING : Can't find the configuration key "localization:time_display_format", default empty string returned
ERROR : unrecognized time_display_format : system_default used.
WARNING : Can't find the configuration key "localization:date_display_format", default empty string returned
ERROR : unrecognized date_display_format : system_default used.
Application locale is system
Localizing TUI for locale: system
WARNING : Can't find the configuration key "localization:time_zone", default empty string returned
Loading Solar System data...(loaded)
Loading location: "Paris", on Earth (landscape is: "guereins")
Loading Hipparcos star data...(118217 stars loaded [2200 dropped]).
Loading Hipparcos double stars...(8824 stars loaded)
Loading Hipparcos periodic variable stars...(1930 stars loaded)
Load star names from /usr/share/stellarium/data/sky_cultures/western/star_names.fab
Loading NGC data... (13226 items loaded [3175 dropped])

...no position data for Barnard's galaxy
...no position data for Papillon
...no position data for γ Cas nebula Loading NGC name data...( 225 names loaded)
Loading Nebula Textures...(74 textures loaded)
Loading Constellation boundary data...(782 segments loaded)
Load star names from /usr/share/stellarium/data/sky_cultures/western/star_names.fab
WARNING : Can't find the configuration key "viewing:flag_meridian_line", default 0 value returned
WARNING : Can't find the configuration key "astro:flag_telescopes", default 0 value returned
WARNING : Can't find the configuration key "astro:flag_telescope_name", default 0 value returned
WARNING : Can't find the configuration key "astro:flag_light_travel_time", default 0 value returned
Loading Cities data...(2069 cities loaded)
Localizing TUI for locale: system
WARNING : Can't find the configuration key "viewing:flag_chart", default 0 value returned
WARNING : Can't find the configuration key "viewing:flag_night", default 0 value returned
Script completed.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)