Celestia dies with segmentation fault, on atiogl_a_dri.so

when running celestia, it crashes with segmentation fault.
hardware: ati radeon 9000 mobile (with pentium-m), using the fglrx driver.
program: celestia-gnome
gdb output (the interesting bits) :

nStars: 112524
Initializing ARB vertex programs . . .
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/diffuse_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/specular_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/haze_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/bumpdiffuse_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/bumphaze_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/shadowtex_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/diffuse_texoff_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/rings_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/ringshadow_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/night_arb.vp
Loading ARB vertex program: shaders/glossmap_arb.vp
All ARB vertex programs loaded successfully.
render path: 3

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1208703296 (LWP 2277)]
0xb72f1133 in __glim_R200TCLDrawArrays ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so

backtrace:
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb72f1133 in __glim_R200TCLDrawArrays ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
#1 0xb72f0999 in __glim_R200TCLDrawArrays ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
#2 0xb72f0999 in __glim_R200TCLDrawArrays ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
#3 0xb72f0999 in __glim_R200TCLDrawArrays ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
#4 0xb72f0999 in __glim_R200TCLDrawArrays ()y
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
#14 0xb72f0999 in __glim_R200TCLDrawArrays ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
#290 0xb72f0999 in __glim_R200TCLDrawArrays ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
#291 0xb72f0999 in __glim_R200TCLDrawArrays ()
   from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so

and so on.