can you start an opengl app without X windows?
yes, blender requires X
(someone was asking in off topic [… but it was on topic] if it was possible to start blender without X even installed, for a renderfarm. At the moment there isn’t a blender compile without the ui, but perhaps that would be a good idea in the future)
can you start an opengl app without X windows?
yes, blender requires X
(someone was asking in off topic [… but it was on topic] if it was possible to start blender without X even installed, for a renderfarm. At the moment there isn’t a blender compile without the ui, but perhaps that would be a good idea in the future)[/quote]
That would certainly free up a lot of resources without X running.
That’s terrible! Blender runs on Mandrake 10 for me. What kind of errors are you getting?
Fedora Core 1 + ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
The radeon has problems with Blender, causing buttons to look wrong, menus to look garbled, and crashes when rendering.
I turn off DRI in my XF86Config file and Blender works fine, but the GL become software rendered, of course. I’m not a gamer, so I live with it this way most of the time.
I had an nvidia and Blender worked much better with it. But I also found plugging in nvidia modules and building X every time I build a new kernel to be a major PIA.
I just downloaded the Gentoo universal LiveCD. I thought that it would as easy to run as the other Linux LiveCD’s like Knoppix, me personal favorite. But I find that that is not the case. I have to partition the hard drive or something. Gentoo seems to have better support for my Geforce cards. I hope that I can get the LiveCD version of Gentoo up and running without the partition.
Anyway I like these disposable Linux OS options! I just download them and burn them to a CDRW and I’m good to go.
Gentoo, Nvidia, AMD-64, RAM, RAM, RAM, Blender. Life is good.
Ahem! Where’s Mac OS X in the voting options? 
that’s what I use
Just for the record. I use the following:
Windows XP
SuSE 8.2
MacOSX 10.2.8
Blender runs fine on all three. But I agree, it seems to run the best on SuSE. Quite frankly, I’m surprised at the complete lack of any FreeBSD or Irix users. Odd for the latter considering that blender was originaly written for Indigo right?
That’s terrible! Blender runs on Mandrake 10 for me. What kind of errors are you getting?[/quote]
libstdc+±libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object.
No I’ve got a newer version of it. but I try to install this one.
*edit:
It works now, but iI think it is strange that it didn work with the newer bersion of libc
I use Win 2000 and MacOSX. (could only vote for one, so I voted for Windows)