===== Use on Linux with a Nvidia graphic card =====

If you use a recent Nvidia driver on Linux you can see the planet are only show as a white sphere.\\
This problem is because of an incompatible change in the driver.

To get a working environment for the Virtual Planet Atlas process as follow:

  - Download the latest driver available from http://www.geforce.com/drivers , for example NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.20.run
  - Uninstall the Nvidia proprietary driver from your Linux distribution
  - Disconnect your session and start a terminal with Alt+F1
  - Connect as root in this terminal (or with your user name and then: sudo -i)
  - Stop the graphic services i.e: service sddm stop , or service xdm stop.
  - Install the Nvidia driver, adding the option --no-glvnd-glx-client : <code>sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.20.run --no-glvnd-glx-client </code>
  - Respond to the questions until the process complete. For more information the [[http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/375.20/README/index.html|README]] link at the bottom of the download page. 
  - If you need to uninstall this driver, process as above then run this command: <code>sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.20.run --uninstall</code> After that you can reinstall the proprietary driver from your distribution.
      
See also :  https://www.ap-i.net/mantis/view.php?id=1575