[Bf-committers] Blender GUI not working anymore on Debian sid.

joe joeedh at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 19:29:05 CEST 2009


BTW, gimp, openoffice, etc do not use opengl; blender does, even for
it's UI.  Have you changed anything about your graphics card lately,
settings, drivers, etc?  Have you installed a compositing x server
(e.g. glitz) or uninstalled one, or changed settings or something?

Joe

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Dietrich Bollmann<diresu at web.de> wrote:
> Hi Joe, Campbell and Julien :)
>
> Thank you very much for your answers.
>
> I answer to all three messages in one mail in order to reduce the number
> of mails on the mailing list...
>
> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 08:10 -0600, joe wrote:
>> Sounds like something changed or went wrong with your graphics
>> drivers.  What graphics card do you have?
>>
>> Joe
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> Here is what 'lspci' tells me:
>
>  00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME,
>  943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
>
> Until now I never had any problems - and currently only the blender
> menus seem to make problems.
>
>
> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 07:41 -0700, Campbell Barton wrote:
> if you download blender from blender.org it comes with an option to
>> run with Mesa (softeare opengl)
>> - try running "blender-softwaregl"
>
> Hi Campbell.  Thanks!
>
> I downloaded the blender.org distribution and it worked when starting
> blender with "blender-softwaregl" :)
>
> As I rely on a customized version of blender, I than manipulated the
> "blender-softwaregl" script to start my own compiled blender version -
> and it works also :)
>
> Looking at the script I suppose that it works because it uses the
> libGL.so and libGLU.so libraries provided by the blender.org blender
> distribution?  These probably are the Mesa libs you mentioned?  Until
> now I thought Debian is using mesa also, so this is not the case?  Or,
> if it is, do you know about the differences between the versions
> installed by Debian and the versions you are providing?
>
> Do you think it is a "good" solution for my problem to start blender
> from now on using the wrapper script provided by the blender.org blender
> installation?
>
> Sorry for asking you all these things, I am curious :)
>
>
> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 17:04 +0200, revuedelibre . wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had the same problem with my debian sid. I updated my nvidia drivers ( non
>> free ), and it works well now. Before my update, only Blender was not
>> running, others "classical" programs worked well  (iceweasel, openoffice,
>> gimp ... )
>
> Hi Julien,
>
> I don't use an external graphics card as I have a (very small) laptop
> with an onboard graphics chipset.
>
> But gimp, iceweasel and openoffice seem to work without problems here
> also.  Only Blender's menus don't show up when not using the wrapper
> script provided by the blender download from blender.org.  Do you have
> any idea how to update my drivers if not from the debian sid packages?
> And could this help to start blender without using the wrapper script?
>
> Thank you all for your help!
>
> Regards, Dietrich
>
>
> By the way, I first asked on the debian-user mailing list.
>
> I got one answer indicating me the following posting:
>
>> Its a wonder it works as well as it does:
>>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-devel@lists.debian.org/msg275131.html
>
> Probably you know about this mail already, but I thought I just mention
> it for any case...
>
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Julien
>
>
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