Error when running Stellarium with Intel GPU

Question

I'm trying to run Stellarium on a 2009 desktop computer with an Intel GPU, but I get the following error message:
Your OpenGL subsystem has problems. See log for details. Ignore and suppress this notice in the future and try to continue in degraded mode anyway?
This is the log file:
2015-02-02T20:03:51
Linux version 3.18.4-1-ARCH (builduser@tobias) (gcc version 4.9.2 20141224 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 27 20:45:02 CET 2015
Compiled using GCC 4.9.2
Qt runtime version: 5.4.0
Qt compilation version: 5.4.0
Addressing mode: 64-bit
MemTotal: 8101092 kB
MemFree: 154528 kB
MemAvailable: 4217808 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
cpu MHz : 2997.000
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
cpu MHz : 2997.000
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Kernel driver in use: i915
stellarium
[ This is Stellarium 0.13.2 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2014 Fabien Chereau et al ]
Writing log file to: "/home/fturco/.stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
0 . "/home/fturco/.stellarium"
1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
Config file "/home/fturco/.stellarium/config.ini" does not exist. Copying the default file.
Config file is: "/home/fturco/.stellarium/config.ini"
Detected: OpenGL "2.1"
Driver version string: "2.1 Mesa 10.4.3"
GL vendor is "Intel Open Source Technology Center"
GL renderer is "Mesa DRI Intel(R) Q35 "
GL Shading Language version is "1.20"
MESA Version Number after parsing: 10.4
Mesa version is fine, we should not see a graphics problem.
GLSL Version Number after parsing: 1.2
This is not enough: we need GLSL1.30 or later.
You should update graphics drivers, graphics hardware, or use the MESA version.
Else, please try to use an older version like 0.12.4, and try there with --safe-mode
You can try to run in an unsupported degraded mode by ignoring the warning and continuing.
But more than likely problems will persist.
Aborting due to OpenGL/GLSL version problems.
I'm using xf86-video-intel version 2.99.917-1 at the moment.
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
I also get extremely slow performances when running 3D game Xonotic, but I don't know if it's due to the same problem. Any suggestion?

Answer 1

It seems that my GPU (Intel GMA 3100) is not supported anymore. See https://answers.launchpad.net/stellarium/+faq/2570: "Graphics cards which are no longer supported by Stellarium 0.13 and later include early ATI/AMD Radeon cards up to and including the Xxxx series (built 2004/05), NVidia up to GeForce FXxxx (2003/04), and Intel GMA before X3000, unfortunately also including the popular Atom-based netbooks of 2010."