I just downloaded apprentice and it locked up the Suse box! I really wanted a OS X version - after reading the OS X ports and reading
whats best and seeing that people love blender even on a Houdini forum. Blender runs it runs and anything and doesnt cost thousands of dollars why would any use this Houdini stuff?

So much for my Houdini trial.

Ed

Hi Ed,

I'm sorry to hear you didn't have a good experience with Apprentice. If you think you would like to get it running on your SuSE box, we, the forum users, will try our best to help.

Else, all the best with your journey. Good luck!

Cheers!
steven

emarch
Blender runs it runs and anything and doesnt cost thousands of dollars why would any use this Houdini stuff?

Such a great question, really.
Since we're on this topic, which was the name of the last feature film using Blender for effects? They surely saved some bucks…

Don't give up so easily. You gotta keep plugging along if you want to get good in this business..

emarch
So much for my Houdini trial.

Ed

I got Houdini running on my old P3 with Suse no problem…what is your video card?

I got Houdini running on my old P3 with Suse no problem…what is your video card?

Thanks for the offer of help guys… I have SuSe 9.0 and a Nvidia
video card GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (nv)
as reported from YaST


Which houdini shold i down load ? I assumed RH9.0


Tnx
Ed

Hi Ed,

I think you might be out of luck with the graphics card you have. I don't remember if the GeForce2 MX will work with Houdini. Please search through the forum if you can. I'll try to see what I can dig up too.

If the card is good, please install the Nvidia drivers for the card as the open source ‘nv’ drivers does not have proper OpenGL support. This is most likely the reason why launching Houdini killed your X session.

Please let us know how it goes.

Cheers!
steven

Well that's what I dont get, whats the big deal with how old the video card is. Blender runs fine on that machine and it uses OpenGL too. I can understand skipping the standard API and using special drivers for speed
but ther eshould be a fall-back to allow it to run slower using some other older API. I have a windows machine that is 600mhz, so talk about slow I might try that too.

Thanks…

OK I installed the Nvidia driver
1.0-9629 for Linux x86
and 3D seems disabled but NVIDIA says ignore that in SuSE 9.0
I should have OpenGL supprt 2.1 running

The problem is the License server wont serve licences
is ths a firewall problem?

Any ideas anyone ???

Diagnostic Output:
==================
If you are having licensing problems, please save this information and email it
to support@sidefx.com.

License Administrator output:
=============================
Generated on: Sun Nov 26 20:51:51 2006
Local host name: ux
Local server code: 275c9500
Local ip address: 192.168.0.4
Number of servers: 1
License server name: ux (ux.march)
Server ip address: 192.168.0.4
License server is running: No
License Administrator version: 8.1.704
Http proxy host: (none)
Can retrieve http://license.sidefx.com/index.php: [license.sidefx.com] Yes

Installed licenses:
LicID Platform Product Ver Avail Expiry
—– ——– ——- — —– ——

sesictrl -i output:
===================
Cannot connect to server ux (192.168.0.4)- verify that sesinetd is running.



hserver -l output:
==================
Hostname: ux
Uptime: 0:29:11
License Server: ux

**WARNING**: Unable to contact license server (for 1749 seconds)

Server Version: sesinetd4.x
Version: Houdini8.1.704
ReadAccess: +.+.+.*
WriteAccess: +.+.+.*

59 of 502 Mb available
CPU Usage: 0% load
0 active tasks (1 slots)



licenses file:
==============
* Could not open the licenses file. *(ux ed) 20:57:18

run sesinted

sorry that should be
sesinetd.exe

Hi Ed,

To get sesinetd running, please do the following, probably as root:
cd /usr/lib/sesi
./sesinetd.startup start

After sesinetd starts, you should be able to install an Apprentice license.

To ensure that sesinetd starts everytime, you have to login as root, go to yast->System->System Services (Runlevel) and find sesinetd.startup there and enable it in runlevel 2, 3 and 5. This is taken from this thread [sidefx.com].

Please let us know how it goes.

Cheers!
steven

I ran Houdini 6-7.1 successfully under Linux Mandrake 10.1 with nVidia MX400 card with OGL enabled for about 3 years. Now I have an up-to-date system with SuSe 10 x86_64 OS - it runs fine.

Concerning sesinetd not starting - I guess this is a common problem with SuSe distros - no big problem with that - you can always create a shell file to start houdini, initializing the needed variables and starting sesinetd for you. Or start it up manually after you run source houdini_init in csh.

Cheers, and don't give up too soon.

Thanks guys _ I guess it is a suse problem It runs OK now.
I now sure what to do with it, still learning the basic stuff.
At least its running….


Ed