Dear all, I am trying to use a 3DConexion SpaceNavigator with chimera in my linux machine. I have installed the SpaceNavigator drivers and they work properly with the manufacturer test tools (xcube and xvalue). Althought I am running the last chimera release, when I open chimera it does not "see" the device. Should I do something special when I start chimera or once it is open in order to use the device? Thanks in advance, Daniel
Dear Daniel, I'm not aware of any requirements other than installing the driver: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/mouse.html#otherinput> Our SpaceNavigator expert is out of town, but may be able to advise you when he returns next week. Sorry I couldn't help more, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On Apr 8, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Daniel Luque wrote:
Dear all, I am trying to use a 3DConexion SpaceNavigator with chimera in my linux machine. I have installed the SpaceNavigator drivers and they work properly with the manufacturer test tools (xcube and xvalue). Althought I am running the last chimera release, when I open chimera it does not "see" the device. Should I do something special when I start chimera or once it is open in order to use the device? Thanks in advance, Daniel
Hi Daniel, The Space Navigator support is supposed to work with Chimera without doing anything other than having the 3dconnexion driver installed and the device plugged in. I will try to test this on Thursday when I have access to a Linux machine with a Space Navigator. Tom
Dear all,
I am trying to use a 3DConexion SpaceNavigator with chimera in my linux machine. I have installed the SpaceNavigator drivers and they work properly with the manufacturer test tools (xcube and xvalue). Althought I am running the last chimera release, when I open chimera it does not "see" the device. Should I do something special when I start chimera or once it is open in order to use the device?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
On a related note, to make the Space Navigator work with the 64-bit Mac Chimera (daily build) you need a recent 3dconnexion driver (1.6.0, March 16, 2010 or newer) since only recent drivers include 64-bit support. I've tested it on my Mac OS 10.6.3 system and Space Navigator in Chimera is working. Tom
Hi Daniel,
The Space Navigator support is supposed to work with Chimera without doing anything other than having the 3dconnexion driver installed and the device plugged in. I will try to test this on Thursday when I have access to a Linux machine with a Space Navigator.
Tom
Dear all,
I am trying to use a 3DConexion SpaceNavigator with chimera in my linux machine. I have installed the SpaceNavigator drivers and they work properly with the manufacturer test tools (xcube and xvalue). Althought I am running the last chimera release, when I open chimera it does not "see" the device. Should I do something special when I start chimera or once it is open in order to use the device?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
Hi Daniel, I tested the Space Navigator with Linux Chimera (1.4.1 and 1.5 daily builds) and like you found it didn't work. The trouble was that a linux space navigator library (libspnav.so.0.1) was accidentally left out of the Chimera distribution. I've fixed that and it should be in the daily builds tomorrow. Adding that it still didn't work! I found that it requires spacenavd, an open source alternative to the 3dconnexion driver (3dconnexion makes the Space Navigator device). http://spacenav.sourceforge.net/ Chimera does not include, nor start that daemon. If you get spacenavd, install it and start it, tomorrow's Chimera daily build should work with the Space Navigator. I thought the Space Navigator support in Linux Chimera worked with the 3dconnexion driver but searching my old email I see I never tested it because the 3dconnexion driver required some old Motif libraries that I couldn't find. Now I've tried it and it is clear Chimera will not work with the 3dconnexion driver. We will need to document this in the Chimera manual. Some more work could probably make Space Navigator work with the 3dconnexion driver on Linux but that part of the Chimera code was written by someone outside the lab (Thomas Margraf) and it is not too likely we will be able to fix it given our many other priorities. Tom
Dear all,
I am trying to use a 3DConexion SpaceNavigator with chimera in my linux machine. I have installed the SpaceNavigator drivers and they work properly with the manufacturer test tools (xcube and xvalue). Althought I am running the last chimera release, when I open chimera it does not "see" the device. Should I do something special when I start chimera or once it is open in order to use the device?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
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