gpnsatan Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 It's very annoy especially about the geometry part. After I do something like change modes(OBJ->ROP->OBJ), or do somthing like preview render, maximize help window, etc. The icons of both tool bar and network pane are missing, also geometry OGL render disappear after I move camera. System spec below: HP xw9300 with Quardo FX1400 Dual Opteron 252, 2G RAM nVidia driver version 1.0.7676 OS: Ubuntu 5.10 Gcc: 3.4.5(with 3.3.6/4.0.x installed also) glibc: 2.3.5 Houdini: houdini-8.0.383-linux_rhEL4 See screenshot taken below. I've already tried with HOUDINI_OGL_DBL_BUFFER_FIX. And I have nvidia CIOverlay option on in xorg.conf. ===screenshot=== icons all missing, along with a sphere newly created. icon missing with model OGL render still there. Arr....After moving camera, the OGL render is gone too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 This is most likely a problem caused by the videocard driver, but I'm not sure (it's hard to tell from here). It sounds - and looks - very annoying, so I'm sorry to hear about your problem(s)... Try addressing this in the SESI mailinglist and/or at the (SESI) forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malexander Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 You can try turning the CIOverlay option off and see if that helps. I've used up to NV driver version 7174, and that one seems to be very stable. 7676 I've never tried because of its dependency on a newer version of libc which my Debian dist doesn't care for, so I'm unsure of whether that would be the issue (though I have heard rumors of strange problems with that driver version, but never seen them). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtucker Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 Since the problem looks to be that every icon is missing, and it looks like everything else is fine, I would wonder if there is a problem with the file that contains the icons. In $HH/config/Icons there should be a file called Icons.index which is about 1.3MB. If you run "hidx Icons.index" from the command line, it should spit out a huge list of .bicon file names, file sizes, and dates. If not (or if the file is missing), there may have been a problem with your installation or that file got corrupted or lost some other way. Your best bet is to just reinstall Houdini if there is a problem with that file. If that file looks fine, you should also make sure that there is no Icons.index file located anywhere else in your Houdini path, or Houdini may be trying to use that file instead of the real one. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpnsatan Posted November 4, 2005 Author Share Posted November 4, 2005 Thanks to everyone who reply my post first, although your solution didnt correct my problem, but narrows down the possible of what cause this all. It's my custom compiled kernel 2.6.13-4, when I change back to stock kernel of Ubuntu 5.10, everything runs so smooth, that I even tried it 3~4 times with rebooting and switch kernels.(and smesh Fn keys like hell XD) Finally I would like to try 2.6.14, the newest one but failed to boot, so I just use the last linux-tree provide by Ubuntu archives(which is 2.6.12-xx). Things turns out quite smoothly using 2.6.12 version of kernel, maybe nVidia should try to keep up with new kernels?(I pull out useless modules which enabled with default settings,turn on SMP, change arch,etc..etc..). Anyway, a big THANK to you guys!!! I can finally start playing with new houdini 8~~~YEAH~~~ Best, Ren-Wei Yang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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