[Lvas] KStars and my Intelliscope

[Douglas Phillipson]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>   
>> Doug,
>>
>> Remembering that you developed a driver for the Intelliscope in 
>> KStars, I've downloaded what I thought was the latest version of 
>> KStars, but it has nothing for Intelliscope in it.  How can I get the 
>> Intelliscope driver you developed?
>>
>> Yes, I'm beginning my transition to Linux.  I checked out KStars and 
>> in most ways, I like it better than Starry Night Pro, for which I paid 
>> $150 two years ago.
>>
>> Talk to you later,
>>
>> Rob
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> I submitted the source code for my Intelliscope driver to the KStars 
> project many months ago.  I'll contact the project lead and see when 
> it's supposed to be included with Kstars, as the Argo Navis driver I 
> wrote has been.
>
>   

I just got and answer from Jasem, the main Linux driver developer In 
Kuwait!  Kstars V1.3 includes the driver for the Intelliscope as a 
standard driver.  It's available with KDE V4.0, which was just 
released.  You need to upgrade to KDE V4.0 from V3.5.  I'm not sure how 
to upgrade your "Mint" Linux distro, perhaps your son can help.  If you 
upgrade to KDE 4.0, then upgrade the "kdeedu" package, you should get my 
new driver.

Doug P