[gentoo-user] Spacenav use test

Anthoine Bourgeois

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Jan 4, 2012, 4:40:02 PM1/4/12

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Hello,

3Dconnexion corp sells some 3D mouse devices.
There are 4 different 3Dconnexion devices :
http://www.3dconnexion.com/buy/shop.html

Those devices use a proprietary driver but an free alternative is available on :
http://spacenav.sourceforge.net/

The problems with proprietary driver are that it proprietary, it
GNU/Linux/32bits (Redhat, Suse) only and
it only works through the X window system with motif for presenting a
configuration GUI
(and cannot be made to start without it).

I write on this list and hope someone can test these devices on Gentoo.
My overlay :
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=user/aluco.git;a=summary
contains a blender ebuild with useflag 3dmouse. This useflag depends
on libspnav and spacenavd daemon that provides free alternative of the
proprietary driver.
The ideal would be to test each product.

Please, feel free to send me reports on my personal mail, I reply quickly.

Regards,
Anthoine

pk

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Jan 5, 2012, 3:20:03 PM1/5/12

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On 2012-01-04 22:28, Anthoine Bourgeois wrote:

> I write on this list and hope someone can test these devices on Gentoo.
> My overlay :
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=user/aluco.git;a=summary
> contains a blender ebuild with useflag 3dmouse. This useflag depends
> on libspnav and spacenavd daemon that provides free alternative of the
> proprietary driver.
> The ideal would be to test each product.

I plan on buying a space navigator (and I have a lot experience in using
them as a design engineer [NX/Catia]) and will test as soon as I'm able.
Unfortunately it will not happen before summer though...

Best regards

Peter K

Anthoine Bourgeois

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Jan 5, 2012, 3:50:03 PM1/5/12

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Hello Peter,

2012/1/5 pk <pet...@coolmail.se>:

No problem. Thank you for this return. I will be very happy to help
as soon as you get on. Please call me.
(especially if the driver does work the first time of course :-)

Best,
Anthoine

pk

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Nov 5, 2012, 4:10:02 PM11/5/12

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Anthoine,

I don't know if you're still on this list or not so I'm cc:ing you.
Finally, I've bought myself an spacenavigator. The spnavd/libspnav is in
official portage now (masked) so I've tried out that one. Works fine in
Blender-2.63a-R2 (well, except the awkward way of panning but that's
Blenders "fault")! Will try to find some time to test it properly. Just
wanted to let you (and perhaps other interested parties on this list)
know...

Best regards

Peter K

Anthoine Bourgeois

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Nov 5, 2012, 4:30:02 PM11/5/12

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2012/11/5 pk <pet...@coolmail.se>

Anthoine,

I don't know if you're still on this list or not so I'm cc:ing you.
Finally, I've bought myself an spacenavigator. The spnavd/libspnav is in
official portage now (masked) so I've tried out that one. Works fine in
Blender-2.63a-R2 (well, except the awkward way of panning but that's
Blenders "fault")! Will try to find some time to test it properly. Just
wanted to let you (and perhaps other interested parties on this list)
know...

Hi Peter,

Thank you for report here. I'm still interested in various return your can offer me.

Try spnavcfg gui and don't forget to read :
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SpaceNavigator
whose contains a lot of useful information (I hope to at least :-)

spacenavd and libspnav are stable now for few days.

Best regards,
Anthoine