Good to hear you got it running. Now you can go play. :-) Dave On Mar 9, 2008, at 12:01 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 09 March 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 09 March 2008, Dave Engvall wrote: >>> Hi Gene, >>> >>> I've been running synergy for several years now on FC5. I have a >>> Nvidia video card I'm not entirely happy with. >> >> So am I, but glx isn't working. Unsing 169.09 nvidia driver and >> 2.6.24 as >> nothing newer runs on that driver, or vice versa. >> >>> Bob at Weber Systems usually has good recommendations on a stable >>> linux for synergy. I think those recommendations change from time to >>> time depending on experience. >> >> Humm, (and I just had to reboot, my playing with bricscad >> apparently trashed >> the system and even kmail froze.) >> >> That essentially means that weber is not staying current with >> linux, resting >> on their laurals so to speak. That isn't very encouraging. >> >> Ditto for bricscad and brlcad it appears, although brlcad just ran >> its >> benchmark suite nicely here, bragging that this machine was about >> 1500 times >> faster than their reference machine, a VAX 11-723. And while >> bricscad's rt >> reporter ran, it too squawked about opengl. And I think trying to >> run mged, >> which never ran, is what took the system down for good, locking it >> up tight >> with thousands of processes. >> >> Synergy I like the best, a good gui, but while it claims to be >> able to >> open .dwg files, does absolutely nothing but clear the requester >> off the >> screen otherwise, for either a load, or an import. >> >> I wonder if synergy would run any better on that ubuntu box >> running the >> mill? >> >> Its sort of discouraging when autocad is so difficult to deal with >> in terms >> of its output, and synergy is so darned unstable. >> >> I'm going to quit X, and reinstall the nvidia driver cuz the Xorg. >> 0.log says >> its getting the xorg version instead of nvidia's. >> > And that was the magic twanger, Dave. It appears that an xorg > update had put > a real libgl in, in place of the link to the version named nvidia > library. I > killed it and then reran the installer and everything is cool now for > synergy, the tut's worked as advertised and are stable. And the whole > machine is 2 or 3x faster too. And glxinfo works too. Thanks for > the bump > on the elbow to go check that out. Now to go and clean up after > amanda, as > that crash was in the middle of a backup run. Messy. :( > >>> Dave >>> >>> On Mar 8, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> On Friday 07 March 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> I downloaded the tgz and unpacked it, which supp[oseely has a 30 >>>>> day trial >>>>> option. However, I can't get past the license key requester to >>>>> soo how its >>>>> supposed to look, and there appears not to be a temp key in the >>>>> archive. >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone know how to make the limited time demo mode run? >>>>> >>>>> I also looked at synergy, sweet! >>>> >>>> Update on synergy: Thinking if I can figure out how to use it, I >>>> might even >>>> buy it although the extras are outragiously high. >>>> >>>> But, so far on this F8 box, I have only gotten to the end of one of >>>> the demo >>>> sessions, all the rest have taken X down with a signal 11 after >>>> about 100 >>>> operations. I see the last rpm is for RH9, which is now pretty >>>> prehistoric >>>> so I suspect a glibc incompatibility even though I'm running the >>>> tgz version. >>>> >>>> And I've made many attempts to load a very simple .DWG file from >>>> the schools >>>> autocad install of a friend of mine, with absolutely zero success. >>>> He has >>>> sent me pdf's but I can't make gcode out of a pdf. >>>> >>>> Does it (synergy) run ok on the kubuntu-6.06 that emc is built on? >>>> >>>> And I still haven't found a method to allow bricscad to run. >>>> Anybody else >>>> have it working? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Cheers, Gene >>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >>>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >>>> Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. >>>> -- R.S. 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