Alan, et al:
I understand that this is a dead thread (Last update having been on 05-07-2007 11:13 PM), but I wanted to let anyone know that I now have the Vectric Vcarve trial software running under Ubuntu v8.04 / Wine 1.1.10. This same fix also allowed me to run Google Sketchup v6 on the same wine installation.
In case anyone else is trying to get this software going under the EMC2 / Ubuntu BDI cd here is a writeup that I posted to the Vectric forums:
In case anyone else wants to try running VCarve under Linux. I now have it up and running under wine and have been able to produce gcode from the trial version that matches that which was produced when installed under Windows.
When installing I ran into 2 problems. the first was that the fonts kept getting reloaded every time I started Vcarve. (This was a minor delay but I found a fix while trying to fix the show stopper noted below.) The second problem was that the 3D display was blank which meant that no part or tool path preview. The cause of my black screen problem was that my computer is running an Intel 945 integrated graphics card. I used the "lspci -v | less" command to find out what card my system had. The relevant section began with a line containing:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
This family of video cards does not support the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) for applications running under Wine. If you are have installed a 3D application such as Vectric's Cut3d, Vcarve Pro, PhotoVcarve, or Google Sketchup v6 on an Ubuntu (or EMC2 live CD install) system you can workaround this issue by:
Note: these instructions assume that you are familiar with your Linux system and are not afraid of the using the command line to edit configuration files.
1) Open a terminal window
Click on Menu/Accessories/Terminal
2) Back up your current configuration, enter your password when prompted
gksudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.BAK
3) Edit the config file, enter your password if prompted
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
4) Look for a section that looks like this (the exact wording on each system will be different):
This is what it looked like on one of my systems:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
This is what it looked like on another system that this procedure was tested on:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel"
EndSection
5) Add the line to disable the DRI functions
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "NoDRI"
EndSection
This is what it fix looked like on the other system:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Option "NoDRI"
Driver "intel"
EndSection
6) Save the file
7) Logout or reboot to restart the X11 windowing system so the change can take effect
Video cards form nvidia (with the propitiatory drivers installed) do not require this workaround, other video chipsets such as ATI may or may not need this workaround to get 3d Apps running under Wine.
For the record here is my system configuration and what was installed to get this working:
Ubuntu v8.04 (Installed form the EMC2 live CD available from
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http://www.linuxcnc.org/hardy/ubuntu...-aj07-i386.iso )
Wine version wine-1.1.10 installed via packages from Wind HQ
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http://www.winehq.org/download/deb
DirectX, and "allfonts" v9 installed by the wine tricks script (These were installed while debugging and to avoid the delay when the fonts were being redone every time VCarve Pro was started) Winetricks can be downloaded from:
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http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks
VCarvePro v4.6 Trial from Vectric's download page.
Google SketchUP v6.4.122 (free) from Google
I also posted this on Vectric's forum so that it may help a wider audience.
Regards,
BoorT