Hi,

I have installed 9.1 Build 124 on a Toshiba Laptop running Ubuntu 7.04.

The installed graphics card is an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000.

I know it's a very low end machine but it's either that or a PowerBook G4.

I have set HOUDINI_OGL_SOFTWARE=1 to get Houdini running.

I noticed that as Houdini is running, I see the following on my console



Any suggestion?

I am mainly learning about the SDK and possibly can run Houdini in console mode to test output the plugins I write. But there will be occasion where the plug-ins are more visual and I need the interactive display.

8<——8<——8<——8<——8<——8<——8<——8<——
X11 Error (155): GLXBadContext
x11_ErrorHandler(_XDisplay*, XErrorEvent*) (X11_GeneratorThread.C:0)
_XError (??:0)
_XReply (??:0)
glXMakeCurrent (??:0)
RE_XServer::GLMakeCurrent(unsigned long, void*) (??:0)
8<——8<——8<——8<——8<——8<——8<——8<——
Regards

HOUDINI_OGL_SOFTWARE is only available on Windows.

I did not know that. Perhaps the hconfig help should reflect this?

Cheers,

J.C.

Done.

Switching to KDE solves the problem of the application hanging on exit.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kde [psychocats.net]

Gnome does not play well with Houdini.

Apparently with other 3D applications too e.g. Maya. so much so that it was discuss on the Autodesk forum.

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=posting&mode=quote&p=54278 [sidefx.com]

Regards