I really want to start using blender and was wondering if I would be better off upgrading my ram (I've got 1.2 GB) or my hard drive (15 GB free) for better results. And, correct me if I am wrong, I don't think that blender makes extensive use of your video card does it? I have a Radeon 9550.
View 1 RepliesI put kmod for nvidia driver on my Fedora 9 ! I update kernel and now when i try to start blender i have this errors :
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blender
Compiled with Python version 2.5.1.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
ERROR: Unable to open Blender window
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I download blender 2.48 and 2.49 Rc static version ! [URL] But is started old version 2.48a . If i try to start from gnome menu ( graphics ..) blender 2.48a but not working !
I have just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze the upgrade went smoothly except now blender won't launch.
This is the error message I get.
blender-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: _nv000056gl
I'm having trouble using Blender and XBMC after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10. Whenever I start the Game Engine mode in Blender (by pressing 'P'), Blender crashes. This happens both in the repository version (2.49.2) and with the newest version (2.54 beta).
For some reason, xbmc actually starts without problems now, but earlier the console output was somewhat similar to that of Blender. The output from Blender seems to indicate that there is something wrong with either libc6 or the NVIDIA drivers. The xbmc output (which now works ok) mentioned something about /lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so, if I remember correctly.
The output at crash is as follows:
Blender 2.54:
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./blenderfound bundled python: /pathtoblender2.54/2.54/python
Detected GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
Detected GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
Detected GL_ARB_multitexture
Detected GL_ARB_shader_objects
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While upgrading to a newer version of Ubuntu I noticed a warning saying that the installation/upgrade should not be interupted. Unfortunately though, during this process my computer froze up and I had to shut it down. Ubuntu no longer starts on my computer. I still have Windows though, which is what I'm using now.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI use Ubuntu 10.10 on an old laptop with 1.7 GHz Pentium M processor, 1 GB RAM, and Intel 915GM graphic chip. Of course the performance is low but it is acceptable. Especially because the graphic chip has poor 3D performance I'm worried if I should upgrade to the approaching Ubuntu 11.04 and GNOME 3. What do you recommend?
Would it be an option to upgrade Ubuntu but continue to use GNOME 2? Is it recommendable to use the 2D fallback mode of GNOME 3?
i tried to compile blender-2.56 like described here:[URL]
but on fc14 it fails with the following errror message:
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gcc -o build/linux2/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/node.o -c -O2 -g -march=i386 -mtune=i686 -O2 -Wall -Wno-char-subscripts -O2 -g -march=i386 -mtune=i686 -fopenmp -O2 -Wall -DXP_UNIX -fopenmp -DGLEW_STATIC -DWITH_PYTHON -DWITH_OPENEXR -DWITH_TIFF -DWITH_OPENJPEG -DWITH_DDS -DWITH_CINEON -DWITH_HDR -DUSE_BULLET
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I am having a problem getting Blender to run in Ubuntu 10.04. Whenever I run it, it just gives me a blank grey screen. I have to use "Force Quit" to close it down. It will not close down just by right clicking on the bottom tab and choosing "Close".
I have installed the version from the Ubuntu Software Center and it gives me the blank grey screen. I have manually installed version 2.49b with Python 2.6 for Linux x86-32 and it gives me the blank grey screen. I have manually installed version 2.56a Beta, 32 bit and it gives me the blank grey screen.
I run a dual boot system with Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04. I have installed Blender in Windows XP and I have no issues. The program opens and you can see the normal layout with buttons and such.
Here is my computer info:
Laptop Toshiba Satellite A100 (5 years old)
-Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.70GHz
-512 RAM (Although it shows Memory as being 432 Mib in sysinfo)
-Graphics card - ATI Technologies Inc. RC410 (Radeon Express 200M)
-80 GB Hard Drive- 60 GB for Windows XP, 20 GB for Ubuntu 10.04 Currently 13.4 GB available in Ubuntu
I do not receive any error messages when I run Blender. Just a blank grey screen opens up, doesn't allow me to do anything, shows no buttons and has to be shut down using "Force Quit".
My computer made it to the "Cleaning up" phase, and then overheated. Any ideas on how I might finish the process manually?
View 1 Replies View RelatedLast night I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 and now my system is bugged. If I accidentally enter the wrong credentials at login, the computer freezes - consistently. This happens at login on startup and when unlocking the screen after it goes to sleep. Additionally, my fingerprint reader which is built in and worked perfectly before the upgrade is causing the computer to freeze after a scan to login or unlock the computer. I haven't noticed any advantages to this newer "lighter" version of ubuntu so I'm not at all opposed to a complete downgrade back to 10.04.Unless someone has a straight solution to this problem - which I doubt, just let me know how I can downgrade my kernel back to a stable version that actually functions to basic standards..
P.S. I know that the upgrade deleted/turned off some "uneeded" or absolete repositories, so I went thru and reinstalled all those involved with the fingerprint scanner, and still the same results, even after a restart so..
I am currently using linux on my old system (store bought Gateway). I am building a new computer for Christmas. This is how I want things to go down: Set up new computer > install new hard-drive (as primary) > install (this) hard-drive (as secondary) > copy full contents from current drive to new drive > boot from new drive > Use (this) hard-drive from there on out as a backup/storage.
Will this work? Will a new mobo/processor combo mess any with my current system as a whole? I know that when I use to use gentoo everything was compiled "system specific", however, I do not believe ubuntu operates this way (well they are both goign to be a 64bit capable processor, which I think is about as specific as ubuntu gets)
Furthermore, I will be transfering my current videocard (GeForce 9800 GTX+) into the new system, so I will not need to configure any new video drivers. But what about audio? I currently use onboard audio, and will be using the new mobos audio as well.
for christmas my parents got both my younger sister and i acer mini computers, model d250-1958. my sister was trying to change her password that lets herself as a particular user log in. somehpw she messed up the password and its not what she thought it was and now she doesn't have any way of accessing anything. i thought that there might be an ovveride system or a reseting trick. i've looked in the manual but cant find anything of the sort for either of the two options.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am using fedora 10 in two computers. Just for my own practice I sent a file to my second computer.
1st computer IP is 192.168.1.10
2nd computer IP is 192.168.1.20
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The file has been successfully copied to the second computer but I again want to copy that file into my local computer by still sitting in my 1st computer.
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I boot linux from a usb drive so I can carry my distro wherever I go - I've been doing it for quite some time now and it's always worked wonderfully. Problem: This morning my little cousin unplugged the computer WHILE I was booting into linux. Power loss has happened before, but with no ill effects. This time however, it's decided it won't boot. The screen clears, and just as GRUB is about to load, it freezes and the computer reboots over and over.
I booted to a LiveCD of Ubuntu to try and fsck the drive, but it won't mount the volume. I've worked with this install so long, and have customized it so much I **really** don't want to do a reinstall.. What can I do?
This is my first time using Fedora and I love it but, I had problems installing Openshot then I found a modified rpm. Now the problem is Blender 2.5, Openshot needs Blender 2.5+ and I only have Blender 2.49b and I cannot install blender 2.5 from the source because it just runs and Openshot will not work with it. How to setup Blender 2.5+ in Fedora 14 and how to configure it with OpenShot.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've just decided to switch from Ubuntu and give this distro another go. I've not used SUSE since 9.x so we'll see what happens. I'm running Gnome anyway but when I launch Blender installed from the repositories it goes fullscreen (press F11 in firefox and that's fullscreen). This isn't the default - the default is windowed like when Firefox is maximised say.
You can run it from a terminal with the switch -w to launch it windowed but that doesn't do anything...still fullscreen. Then comes the kicker - I downloaded the alpha version of 2.5 which is a binary in a tarball and it still did it. What's going on? Why is openSUSE 11.2 forcing fullscreen mode? Any ideas because I quite like what I'm seeing in this version of openSUSE but I really need to do my 3D stuff in it and fullscreen makes things difficult when i want to multitask.
Any one have try the blender 2.53 Beta?? I'm trying to use on openSuse 11.3 KDE but blender don't executes
View 9 Replies View RelatedThis will be my first posting here. Please forgive me for not posting this issue under the right place on the forum. I highly ask to the mod/admins to move this post to the correct location if needed to be, or let it continue as normal. My problem here is with this software blender 2.56a, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. 64bit This version of blender worked just fine for me since it updated to my computer. But right after finishing an complex render, blender crashed and will not start up again.
Every time I click on the icon it just keeps flashing up and crashing down. So I went to the main blender site, and downloaded one of their stand alone version of the 2.56a. I ran it and it works just fine.
I tried reinstalling blender 2.56a under Synaptic, but no use. I'm out of ideas, I want this software to run like it use to. Again, It use to run without any problems, but just under one hard render it crashed, and Now it wont launch again.
However, I did mange to get my project to render just find under the stand alone. If any one needs some sort of debugging file, or information of some kind. I would then need to know how to re-chieve it..
Ok I am running Gentoo linux and everything works great except for blender.
It just shows this on startup of blender:
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Compiled with Python version 2.6.6.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
It shows the blender logo of some sort of creature riding a space ship thing but all I get is a black screen. Every 6 seconds it flickers to the blender interface but then immediately goes back to black with the blender logo.
I have DRI enabled and I am using the "intel" driver. Its an Intel 82852/855GM onboard graphics device.
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direct rendering: Yes I know the onboard graphics sucks but its a laptop so there is nothing I can do about it. glxgears shows this:
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237 frames in 5.0 seconds = 47.305 FPS. Blender works fine in Windows XP so I know my onboard video can support it.
I was put somewhat in charge of a server last semester running Ubuntu. It serves as a router and general purpose computer for a robotics lab. Yesterday, I went do dist-upgrade using the command line, and ran into a couple of bugs with gtk libraries which I fixed based on the bug reports. However, the computer decided to reboot for some reason in the middle of the upgrade and killed the running OS. I currently have it up on a Debian recovery CD. I can't get past intramfs without the CD. It is dying somewhere in rsyslog with an error about a broken pipe. I am not sure where to go from here. I will post actual error messages when I get back infront of the machine. No one knows how the machine was set up in the first place and it holds a few secrets we need to keep, so reinstall is the last option.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm running Ubuntu 10.04, and ever since last upgrade a couple of days ago (I think), everytime I hit shutdown on the gnome-panel (admittedly, I haven't tried the command line shutdown) the computer restarts itself. This computer is dual-booted with Win 7, and the shutdown command there properly halts the system.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 when my laptop crashed due to a HW issue not related to upgrade. But now when I start:
1) The laptop, it boots up till the point GDM log in screen is displayed without any log-in option. The system does not respond to any keyboard or mouse actions.
2) when I try to recover (recovery mode), the boot process comes til a point where it says "Console: switching to color frame buffer device 180x56"
And the prompt just stays there. It does not not drop to terminal. When I choose an older option in the grub, I do get dropped to initramfs prompt. How to restore my machine. re-instillation is not an option as I have some data I need in the home directory.
My daughter rebooted my computer while it was upgrading from Karmic to Lucid.
Now, of course, it won't reboot
"[ 0.683646]Kernel panic - not syncing: - VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)"
I do have a very current backup of /home
I don't have a backup of any configuration files (/etc/conf and so on?)
I think that I will have to overwrite the whole installation and then restore my /home directory, which will mean tweaking all my software installations again?
Is this my best plan of action?
While updating from 10.04 to 10.10, the PC got accidentaly rebooted. After that I am unable to start even 10.04. A small window tells that GNOME manager didnot install properly. The PC hangs after tat. How do I restore the 10.04 version without reinstalling it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI upgraded the computer at work from 10.10 to 11.04 yesterday and that went okay. Some issues, but I can work them out. I thought I'd get the computer at home done yesterday too, but that failed. I'm now operating off of a USB drive. I also have Windows7 that I was able to function off of (probably have 3 hours logged on Windows in the last 4 months). Anyway, I have an AMD64 with 4 hard drives, of which we have 2 RAID settings so it's more like 2 hard drives.
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Just wanted to upgrade my desktop computer and after the terminal shows:
Installling new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd ...cups start/running, process 7944
The display froye, mouse does not move any more, keyboard does nothing, no chance to escape into a text terminal. Nada. After rebooting the system I get a kernel panic. This is now second of two upgrades to 11.04 that failed, and I do not know how often upgrades failed previously, but rather often.
Last night I decided to upgrade to Natty Narwhal 11.04 from MM10.10. I tried to leave it to install overnight.
Some bright spark turned off the power supply to my computer.
I don't know exactly what stage the installation was at, but it must have been installing the upgrade at least, because I'm now locked out of my computer.
Boot up progresses until the ubuntu loading screen. At this point is says,
'Ubuntu 10.10'
The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present Continue to wait; or press s to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.
(If I press 'S', it says something like 'cannot find /tmp folder')
I don't know if the upgrade installation was completed, but I suspect not, because the power was turned off just an hour into the installation. Also it still tries to load Ubuntu 10.10.
Anything I can do besides formatting for a fresh 11.04 install? If only to save some files?
I have a situation where I am trying to move some data from a Linux computer to a Windows computer. In all there is 700GB of data to move in about 1.5 million files, so I don't want to do this over the network.My first thought was to use an external USB hard drive and create an NTFS partition and copy the files from the linux computer to mount on the Windows computer. After 4 days of copying without completion I abandoned that idea. I thought the NTFS might be slowing it down, so I created an EXT3 partition. 4 Days later it was still copying. I did some calculations and there was no way the USB 2.0 connection was that slow. I then used ddrescue and cloned the drive to be copied overnight and it took about 12 hours. i was able to mount the USB drive under Linux and access the files appropriately. The only problem is that I can not access that USB drive on my Windows 7 computer. I have tried Explore2fs, DiskInternals Linux Reader, and Ext2 Installable File System For Windows, but none of them is recognizing the external drive.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need redirect serial port from ONE computer to ANOTHER computer, and at the another send this port to VirtualBox with WindowsXP.VB needed because i need to use software for windoze I do this:NE computer:socat tcp-l:54321,reuseaddr,fork file:/dev/ttyS0,nonblock,waitlock=/var/run/tty0.lock
ANOTHER computer:
socat pty,link=/tmp/ttyS0,waitslave tcp:ONE:54321
Now (at ANOTHER) i've set serial port in VirtualBox as
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I have recently install Blender on my system (squeeze, 2.6.32-5-amd64, ATI Radeon HD 3100) and when I try and start it I get a segmentation fault. I am using the proprietary driver. When i run glxinfo or glxgears I get a segmentation fault as well which makes me think I have an issue with my hardware acceleration.
I am really suck when it comes to trying to diagnose the problem any further and would appreciate any help you guys have. My system is up to date and Blender has worked before on an almost identical setup (i reinstall debian a while back, may have been using a slightly older kernel then).