well, I may have gotten a bit overconfident, but after my wordpress install, and having a bit of a lull, I upgraded to ubuntu hardy (still in prerelease) from gutsy.
I’ve gotten mixed results- nautilus is simply screaming fast on ftp shares compared to how it used to be, the intnl clock applet is nice, and network manager/intel wireless drivers are both completely smooth/non buggy compared to how they were.
On the downside, I got exposed to a nasty nvidia bug that causes (with the proprietary driver) random freezes in blender , usually during transform. I fixed this by uninstalling the hardy driver, and installing the latest beta driver from nvidia.. so far so good, I’ll edit this if the problem comes back.
Another downside: keyboard and mouse input are both impaired in hardy, and I have no idea why (very odd)… my wacom tablet still works (phew) but my synaptics touchpad and ibm red joystick thingie both stopped working completely.. the pad on the tablet doesn’t work (expresskeys just exits claiming it can’t find it).. and certain special keys I had mapped to numpad keys on my lenovo keyboard give keyrelease events, but no keypress events.. making them useless (between that and the pad not working, I’m once again sadly numpadless in blender). I hope these issues can be resolved before the release, but I’m not even sure what causes them, any clues, short of plugging in an external numpad?
18-04-2008 at 8:34 am
Yay for one of the best Blender artists using Linux!
18-04-2008 at 11:04 am
You are a brave man you ;)
I have no clue about how to solve your problems. I’m no hard core linux user. In fact, I’m only testing ubuntu every time a new release comes out. When I tested 7.10 everything worked out of the box. With beta 8.04, my wacom isn’t even recognized :(
I’ll stick to window$ a bit longer. And until my adobe programs runs natively in linux or 100% with wine there’s no point in making a OS switch. …Well, maybe I’ll consider dual boot if I need to render something memory hungry.
Good luck!
/t3d
18-04-2008 at 4:58 pm
well, hardy is in beta, so I can’t complain too much. Afaik, the input problems are brought on by the new version of Xorg, and/or switching from xlib to xcb. Longterm all will be well, I’m sure.
I’ve actually got a fairly functional setup right now- those errors that are left are not a big deal.
20-04-2008 at 6:55 am
I’ve tried the beta1 of Ubuntu 8.04, everything worked well except my graphics card ATI Radeon 9250 PRO. I’ve tried every guide that is out there to over come the problem and I did eventually, but.. after updating the kernel to 2.6.24-15-generic and 2.6.24-16-generic problems started to appear.. I always get the message “Internal error: failed to initialize HAL!”.. and accompanies it no sound and no network..
I thought it was my updating that is wrong or something I did so I downloaded the 8.04 RC and I boot up my PC with the live CD, but the same problems appeared again.. I think there’s something wrong with my PC model:
hp pavilion a420.me
1 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9250 PRO
hp pavilion f1723 monitor
80 GB HDD
200 GB HDD
21-04-2008 at 4:07 am
Huh, my reply was deleted?! Probably some backup issue, huh?
21-04-2008 at 9:45 am
no, I think that was my fault; the moderation panel has changed in wordpress 2.5, and my muscle memory is out of date- there were at least 3 comments I thought I approved that never showed up- I probably marked them as SPAM or something like that.
21-04-2008 at 2:17 pm
Oh, I see !
21-04-2008 at 2:23 pm
Ah, OK :) I was already afraid that I wrote something I shouldn’t…
Anyway, cool that we have the ’same’ system now! But I have problems with a sound lately, again! :/ Namely, I don’t hear it anymore in the sequencer. This problem appeared when they fixed Firefox Flash player crashing. Strange thing is that sound work in 2.45, but not in my latest SVN Blender, so I don’t have idea where’s the problem, in Blender, Ubuntu or even both?!
Do you have any problems with a sound too perhaps? Btw, I use 64 bit SMP Ubuntu.
21-04-2008 at 3:15 pm
Ha, I just compile it again and it looks that is sound issue fixed now! \o/
27-05-2008 at 9:05 am
Concerning nvidia4s bug, I had the same issue.
Seems to have been solved with today hardy’s update
For external keypad, did your tried numlockx with “numlockx toggle” ?
karpov.
30-05-2008 at 4:16 pm
Funny.
I have a number of the same issues with hardy on my laptop. I have the same annoying random freeze in blender, and my wacom randomly switches from full tablet=full screen to full tablet=random part of the screen. Tried every xorg option I could find and it didn’t fix a thing.
haven’t used it for 3 days, so I hope the new glx driver fixes the freeze though.
And I have to re-set my wireless network every time I fire up…
but then again, in windows, the Fn key doesn’t work, which is essential for blender to me.
computers are fun aren’t they?
30-05-2008 at 5:14 pm
hey freakydude, do you have an nvidia card? if so I can help :) dunno about the tablet issue, I didn’t see that problem.
7-07-2008 at 12:50 pm
Hi Bassam! I´m running hardy too, and I found out that Blender isn´t freeing the memory after each render, so the memory usage increases each time I render until it starts using the swap memory like crazy and everything becomes really slow.
here´s a thread I started pointing this issue out. I´ve also reported it as a bug in the tracker.
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=128274
Perhaps, if you have a detailed enough and hairy character you can test this out and monitor how the memory is handled and if your systems comes to freeze at some point.
Thanks!!
7-07-2008 at 3:54 pm
jpbouza, I can’t say (luckily) that I’ve seen this, but I’ll keep an eye open to see if it happens. for the past few weeks I’ve been only rigging + animating, and the render machines here run fedora, so not sure if it will happen for me yet.
cheers
bassam