Hey guys, don’t know of this belongs to here, but couldn’t find anywhere else to ask.
Anyway, I have updated my linux box to Ubuntu Gutsy, and almost everything went fine except that when I’m modeling, and specifically dragging vertices, I got this annoying lags in my system. They last around a few seconds, and then I can go on with the operation, but usually this leaves my vertices far away, and I need to either cancel or undo the last operation.
Pretty nasty thing huh ? So, I surfed the web for possible causes, couldn’t find anything that is related to this for sure, I’m using a USB mouse, wireless dinovo keyboard, and also a wireless modem, all possible culprits for this behaviour for what I’ve found so far.
Has anybody experienced same behaviour ? maybe we can share info.
I had a similar issue in the 32-bit version. I recommend you send a bug report to the Ubuntu distro as it seems to be an issue on their side rather than Blender.
For me I resolved the issue by downloading & installing the 64-bit version.
Thanks for replying kit89, yeah I do realize this is no Blender bug (that’s why I post in off-topic btw) but wanted to hear from other with same problem.
Just bumping this to let you know I finally fixed the problem. As I suspected the MAC80211 module was the culprit, apparantly from time to time it tried really hard to make some weird transaction with my wifi router thus giving me those freezing moments.
I solved it by changing my kernel from 6.22 (Gutsy default) to 6.26 (latest available I compiled in Gutsy, generally speaking I don’t like the idea of changing distros too often) and now I got it all right.
Now I have another problem most probably related to same cause, sometimes when I login I got a gnome-settings-daemon error saying that couldn’t make a connection with some bus, but that I can fix it by re-running the daemon or restarting X. C’est la vie…