Hi Everyone

I ve downloaded and installed the free version of Houdini for Suse.

When i try to run it its not happening for me.

I see the splash screen of houdini for a sec but It looks like its trying to connect for a license, which it can not find.(is that suppose to happen at all with the apprentice version?)

The problem is i cant see anything in the dialog that pops up. Seems like some problem with the font or something.

Anyone else having similar problems?

I am new to the program and linux as well, any help will be appreciated

many thanks

Hi..

Can you get as screen shot of what you can see.

I'm wondering if the problem is your rgb.txt file, but I just checked and
houdini now comes with its own copy in /opt/hfsxxx/houdini/rgb.txt.

You can get a screen shot for example by using tools like xwd or even
simpler using gimp and going to file->Acquire->Screen shot.

You could also look as a file called .xsession-errors file which should be in you home
directory ie cd , cd ~/ or cd $HOME. The . means it's a hidden file so you will need
to make sure you don't forget to put it in or use “ls -a” to look for similar files, you can then paste any thing you feel will help us help you.

Then you can use the “search” button at the top of the “Houdini forum” to look for similar
problems while we all try to look into the problem.

Regards
Tom

I suspect a graphics card issue with OpenGL drivers. The license manger requires functioning OpenGL to draw properly.

Search this forum for graphics card driver problems.

thanks for the replies guys

i will do a print screen when i get home and post.

my opengl seems to be running ok, because i managed to get teh funky SUSE 3d interface running on my quadro fx 1300, which was causing trouble at teh begging. now its running quite smoothly. But i dont exclude teh possibility of it not working properly with 3d programs. I had xsi demo copy installed just to compare performance wits windows but it is running incredibly slow under linux for some reason.

thanks again

If you don't see the “nvidia” splash screen on boot (when X starts), you don't have hardware acceleration. If XSI is running very slowly, then you may not have hardware OpenGL acceleration yet.

Try typing “glxinfo | grep -i rendering” into a console. That'll tell you if you have direct rendering.

There are quite a few sites that cover installing nvidia drivers on suse.

Hi..

Well it does seem like an graphics problem.

You can start by running glxgears and observing the performance.
The cogs should be spinning fast, if not, then you are likely to be using
SoftWare gl (Mesa).

Next you could try to run glxinfo and look for lines like
OpenGL version: which may tell you what OpenGL you are running,
Mesa is like to mean software and thus slow and unaccelerated.

After all the above you should know where you stand as for which
driver you are running.

I'm guessing that by this stage you might believe you need to properly
configure your card driver.

You will need to download the latest SUSE Nvidia drivers for your card,
I'm guessing SUSE still use RPMs, so you can then user rpm -U nvidiaxxx.rpm
to install your driver.

Then you will need to make sure your XFree86 or Xorg conf file is set up
to use the correct driver and video settings.
The config file should be in /etc/X11/, the name will depend on the Xserver
you user, so you will find xorg.conf or XF86Config.

You might be saved from the above if your Nvidia driver install offers you the option of
using their setup tool during the install process, otherwise if you get stuck after
you are happy that glxinfo looks good, just copy and paste your config file
and I'll give it a scan as I use nvidia drivers too. For speed also post your monitor
frequency details.

Good luck
Regards
Tom

many thanks guys

i see the nvidia spash screen when linux loads and i belive i`ve got the latest nvidia quadro driver for suse properly installed, so that should not be a problem.
will post a screen grab later on for you to see what the problem is
cheers