[arch-general] Blender Bus Error

[jesse jaara]

2011/4/30 Nicolás Adamo <nicoadamo at gmail.com>

> Hi! Does anyone have any clue about this?
>
> [nico at myhost ~]$ blender -d
> Blender 2.49 (sub 2) Build
> argv[0] = blender
> argv[1] = -d
> Compiled with Python version 2.7.1.
> Checking for installed Python... got it!
> Color depth r 5 g 6 b 5
> Aux buffers: 0
> read file
>  Version 247 sub 5
> read file
>  Version 245 sub 16
>
> ordered
>  OBCube
>  OBLamp
>  OBCamera
> File .Blanguages not found
>
> Registering scripts in Blender menus ...
>
> Getting menu data for scripts from file:
> /home/nico/.blender/Bpymenus
>
> Color depth r 5 g 6 b 5
> Aux buffers: 0
> Color depth r 5 g 6 b 5
> Aux buffers: 0
> Color depth r 5 g 6 b 5
> Aux buffers: 0
> Bus error
> [nico at myhost ~]$
>
>
> Running Blender alone without -d (debug) give simply "Bus error". I googled
> a lot about it but couldn't find nothing for certain. Some guy
> troubleshooted this error by deleting a file in his home directory, but that
> file seems to be created when running Blender for the first time.
>
> It's running on i386 atom with poulsbo driver PSB working well (to say
> something... it's a crappy video card and even crappier for linux, not even
> mention for blender).
> I suspect it's not related to some step missing in installation, as when
> installing Blender on a decent desktop PC it works at once. (AMD64
> architecture with ATI videocard and catalyst driver).
>
> To my surprise, when first trying kub. 11.04 and before I could configure
> the video driver, blender did start! When adding the ppa:PSB or similar the
> system couldn't start again. So I think the problem is related to some
> missconfiguration in the PSB.
>
> My xorg.conf:
>
> Section "Monitor"
>        Identifier      "Monitor0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>        Identifier      "Device0"
>        Driver  "psb"
>        Option  "ShadowFB" "true"
>        Option  "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>        Identifier      "Screen0"
>        Device  "Device0"
>        Monitor "Monitor0"
>        DefaultDepth    16
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Depth   16
>                Modes   "1024x768_75.00"
>        EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Any clue will be apretiated. Thanks
>

You could try to build the git version of mesa and
intel driver. And see if it works. You may want to
stip the mesa-git PKGBUILD to pnöy build
intel parts, if you dont have a more powerfull desktop
pc.

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