After two years yesterday I boot Linux in my old Compaq presario notebook (Red Hat 6.2, this told you how old), it doesn’t display well Blender on Windows (many buttons doesn’t appear) so I tried to run it in Linux once again. I have several problems and really can’t remember these happen before but one problem at a time.
I can pan and zoom with shift + mmb and Ctrl + mmb, but when trying to rotate with Alt + mmb the program window resizes and moves over the screen, really weird. Do you know what is the problem?
Try checking the key mapping for the ‘Alt’ key, you may have changed it for some other program and forgot about it. I personally never forget anything like that, errrr… at least that I can remember
Are you sure you should be using Alt-MMB to rotate? Just plain old MMB without any modifier keys should rotate.
I think Alt-*MB clicks are handled by your window manager - well, they are for me in Redhat 7.2/Sawfish/Gnome (Alt-LMB moves a window, Alt-MMB displays the window manager system menu, Alt-RMB brings a window to front/sends a window to back)
ectizen: You’re right, I’m confusing the operation of a three-button mouse with a two-button mouse.
The other problem is the bad display in Windows, I know the Trident Cyberblade from my notebook is not a 3D graphic card but works well in Linux. This card comes with 2 MB memory and steals 2 or 6 more from RAM (is a Windows feature), is something I could do to improve the OpenGL performance? (buttons desappeared), to update drivers is not possible, the file from Trident’s site is the same that comes with my computer.
