anamous Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Hi For kicks, i'm trying to run Houdini on Linux. I'm on a dual Xeon system, with a Quadro card from nvidia, and running Ubuntu 6.06 32Bit with Houdini 8.1.666. Driver installed and all. Houdini starts, has an accelerated interface, too, but all the fonts are horribly garbled. Menu entries called "????????" and "DDDDDDDDDDD" etc. I already tried a different font in resources, to no avail. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratman Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Hey, might be the xorg 7.0 thing, try launching houdini using this , houfini -geometry 0+0+1280x1024, where 1280x1024 being your resolution, and if my memory is right and that was the correct way, it should fix, unless i'm thinking of another thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anamous Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 the correct usage is IIRC -geometry 1280x1024+0+0, which I tried, but didn't work. BTW, here's how it looks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Are you sourcing houdini_setup before launching Houdini? (and this script works without any errors) PS. The xorg 7 problem's solution can be found here: http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com...opic&t=5369 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anamous Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 thanks again for the tip, I already tried the xorg-related solutions out, still not working. I'm writing this off as a "hmm dunno" experience, and trying suse linux (or do you recommend anything else?) next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bategoiko Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 HiFor kicks, i'm trying to run Houdini on Linux. I'm on a dual Xeon system, with a Quadro card from nvidia, and running Ubuntu 6.06 32Bit with Houdini 8.1.666. Driver installed and all. Houdini starts, has an accelerated interface, too, but all the fonts are horribly garbled. Menu entries called "????????" and "DDDDDDDDDDD" etc. I already tried a different font in resources, to no avail. Any ideas? This is a XGL problem and i don't solve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaJuice Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 If you are running XGL, then OpenGL apps will be messed up (at least that's the case with Houdini and Quake). I was running XGL+compiz and my Houdini looked exactly like that. You can run a Houdini session with regular X on top of XGL, but the Houdini window remains stuck, can't be moved or minimized. Not sure if that can be fixed, I'm a linux noob myself. Anyways, if you are running XGL try starting Houdini like this: DISPLAY=:0 houdini Or if 0 doesn't work, try 1. Speaking of Linux... I'm kinda liking it (Ubuntu 6.06), except... Gnome is sluggish compared to Windows, and XGL+compiz runs even more poorly for me. Dunno what that's all about... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADjestic Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 If you are running XGL, then OpenGL apps will be messed up (at least that's the case with Houdini and Quake). I was running XGL+compiz and my Houdini looked exactly like that. You can run a Houdini session with regular X on top of XGL, but the Houdini window remains stuck, can't be moved or minimized. Not sure if that can be fixed, I'm a linux noob myself. Anyways, if you are running XGL try starting Houdini like this: DISPLAY=:0 houdini Or if 0 doesn't work, try 1. Speaking of Linux... I'm kinda liking it (Ubuntu 6.06), except... Gnome is sluggish compared to Windows, and XGL+compiz runs even more poorly for me. Dunno what that's all about... Why not to try some other distro, like Suse or RH, or go for some more seroius stuff like Gentoo or Debian? + try KDE (Kubutu in cintrast to Ubuntu in your case - it'salmost the same) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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