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  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    edited October 2016
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..Daz just needs to compile Studio, Carrara, Bryce, and Hexagon for Linux.

    I might be wrong. But I do recall Hexagon working fine on a 32bit wine prefix. At least no more crashes than on Windows. And since it still hasn't gotten a 64 bit upgrade...

    It works under nouveau drivers. Usng the nVidia proprietary drivers causes it to fail to start.

    Kendall
    Post edited by Kendall Sears on
  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:
     

    So... My usual question to anyone with DAZ 4.8/4.9 64bit on Linux. How are the morph/movement sliders doing? Are they still randomly releasing, even with the mouse pressed and doing random freezes (so you can't type in the value). Or is that fixed?

    Sliders with limits work perfectly fine for me.  Ones with no limits don't...but then again, the don't work right on the Windows machine, either...in both cases just sliding doesn't work, nudge and manually typing in a number do.  And that's more of a Qt problem (like the viewport not properly resizing) than a Studio one.

  • Chanteur-de-VentChanteur-de-Vent Posts: 567
    Kendall Sears said:
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ..Daz just needs to compile Studio, Carrara, Bryce, and Hexagon for Linux.

    I might be wrong. But I do recall Hexagon working fine on a 32bit wine prefix. At least no more crashes than on Windows. And since it still hasn't gotten a 64 bit upgrade...

     

    It works under nouveau drivers. Usng the nVidia proprietary drivers causes it to fail to start.

    Kendall

    Could be, I don't have Nvidia card in my current system. Only gigabyte onboard graphics.

     

     

    mjc1016 said:
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:
     

    So... My usual question to anyone with DAZ 4.8/4.9 64bit on Linux. How are the morph/movement sliders doing? Are they still randomly releasing, even with the mouse pressed and doing random freezes (so you can't type in the value). Or is that fixed?

    Sliders with limits work perfectly fine for me.  Ones with no limits don't...but then again, the don't work right on the Windows machine, either...in both cases just sliding doesn't work, nudge and manually typing in a number do.  And that's more of a Qt problem (like the viewport not properly resizing) than a Studio one.

    So, how does one fix Qt problems and how much has wine have a play in it?

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    I have my Windows drive in a portable holder and I'm in the middle of transferring all of my DAZ files over onto the Linux drive where DAZ expects them to be.  It might take awhile.  I'm wondering if anyone has gotten DIM to successfully download files from within Linux and if, yes, what is involved in that?  Right now I don't have CMS or any of the database stuff working so it's all manual downloads.  My files were up to date before the DAZ site went all wonky and then claimed I had 544 legacy files to update which I hadn't done yet.  How do you figure out which files might need updates to download?  I know Jen puts out an update list for the PC stuff, but is there another list somewhere for all of the other updates?

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    Knittingmommy said:

    I have my Windows drive in a portable holder and I'm in the middle of transferring all of my DAZ files over onto the Linux drive where DAZ expects them to be.  It might take awhile.  I'm wondering if anyone has gotten DIM to successfully download files from within Linux and if, yes, what is involved in that?  Right now I don't have CMS or any of the database stuff working so it's all manual downloads.  My files were up to date before the DAZ site went all wonky and then claimed I had 544 legacy files to update which I hadn't done yet.  How do you figure out which files might need updates to download?  I know Jen puts out an update list for the PC stuff, but is there another list somewhere for all of the other updates?

    I have a list here:  http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/26282/

    It's limited to things I own plus anything other people add to it, however.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:
     
    mjc1016 said:
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:
    So... My usual question to anyone with DAZ 4.8/4.9 64bit on Linux. How are the morph/movement sliders doing? Are they still randomly releasing, even with the mouse pressed and doing random freezes (so you can't type in the value). Or is that fixed?

    Sliders with limits work perfectly fine for me.  Ones with no limits don't...but then again, the don't work right on the Windows machine, either...in both cases just sliding doesn't work, nudge and manually typing in a number do.  And that's more of a Qt problem (like the viewport not properly resizing) than a Studio one.

    So, how does one fix Qt problems and how much has wine have a play in it?

    Qt is the framework DS is built on, there's nothing you can do on your end.  Upgrading to the new version of Qt changes the SDK, which can break plugins, so it's something Daz 3D approaches cautiously and requires lots of testing.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:
     
    mjc1016 said:
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:
     

    So... My usual question to anyone with DAZ 4.8/4.9 64bit on Linux. How are the morph/movement sliders doing? Are they still randomly releasing, even with the mouse pressed and doing random freezes (so you can't type in the value). Or is that fixed?

    Sliders with limits work perfectly fine for me.  Ones with no limits don't...but then again, the don't work right on the Windows machine, either...in both cases just sliding doesn't work, nudge and manually typing in a number do.  And that's more of a Qt problem (like the viewport not properly resizing) than a Studio one.

    So, how does one fix Qt problems and how much has wine have a play in it?

    Wait until Studio is built with Qt 5...

    One of the mid/late 4.x Qt updates is what messed it up.  I believe 4.5 and before were fine...Studio is currently using 4.8 or 4.9 (whatevre the current non-5 is...). It's all related to the things like the viewport not resizing correctly, no real font scaling/controls, lack of 4k display support and all that stuff. 

    And WINE doesn't really figure into it...unless you are wanting to build things in Qt.  But you can build Windows programs in the native Linux version (yeah there's other stuff to install to do so, but WINE/Windows version is not on that list).

     

  • Azure_ZeroAzure_Zero Posts: 65

    So far for Daz Studio WINE documentation I take it is

    • Wine Version: 1.9.20
    • System: 64-bit System
    • Environment: Windows server 2008

    we should get the the DB (CMS) document made to help fill in the content hole....

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Knittingmommy said:

    I have my Windows drive in a portable holder and I'm in the middle of transferring all of my DAZ files over onto the Linux drive where DAZ expects them to be.  It might take awhile.  I'm wondering if anyone has gotten DIM to successfully download files from within Linux and if, yes, what is involved in that?  Right now I don't have CMS or any of the database stuff working so it's all manual downloads.  My files were up to date before the DAZ site went all wonky and then claimed I had 544 legacy files to update which I hadn't done yet.  How do you figure out which files might need updates to download?  I know Jen puts out an update list for the PC stuff, but is there another list somewhere for all of the other updates?

    For me it was just a matter of setting up where I wanted DIM to put things it downloads and pointing it to the install directories.

    CMS takes some work, but it can be done...and done using the Linux native version of Postgre.   I had it working nicely until I screwed up the permissions and haven't gone back to fix it...it's one of those 'someday' things, probably after some new drives/storage space/hardware upgrades. 

  • Azure_ZeroAzure_Zero Posts: 65
    mjc1016 said:
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:
     
    mjc1016 said:
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:
     

    So... My usual question to anyone with DAZ 4.8/4.9 64bit on Linux. How are the morph/movement sliders doing? Are they still randomly releasing, even with the mouse pressed and doing random freezes (so you can't type in the value). Or is that fixed?

    Sliders with limits work perfectly fine for me.  Ones with no limits don't...but then again, the don't work right on the Windows machine, either...in both cases just sliding doesn't work, nudge and manually typing in a number do.  And that's more of a Qt problem (like the viewport not properly resizing) than a Studio one.

    So, how does one fix Qt problems and how much has wine have a play in it?

    Wait until Studio is built with Qt 5...

    One of the mid/late 4.x Qt updates is what messed it up.  I believe 4.5 and before were fine...Studio is currently using 4.8 or 4.9 (whatevre the current non-5 is...). It's all related to the things like the viewport not resizing correctly, no real font scaling/controls, lack of 4k display support and all that stuff. 

    And WINE doesn't really figure into it...unless you are wanting to build things in Qt.  But you can build Windows programs in the native Linux version (yeah there's other stuff to install to do so, but WINE/Windows version is not on that list).

     

    Now that would not be a bad idea, if we could make a Document on how to make a Native linux version of Daz.

  • Azure_ZeroAzure_Zero Posts: 65
    mjc1016 said:
    Knittingmommy said:

    I have my Windows drive in a portable holder and I'm in the middle of transferring all of my DAZ files over onto the Linux drive where DAZ expects them to be.  It might take awhile.  I'm wondering if anyone has gotten DIM to successfully download files from within Linux and if, yes, what is involved in that?  Right now I don't have CMS or any of the database stuff working so it's all manual downloads.  My files were up to date before the DAZ site went all wonky and then claimed I had 544 legacy files to update which I hadn't done yet.  How do you figure out which files might need updates to download?  I know Jen puts out an update list for the PC stuff, but is there another list somewhere for all of the other updates?

    For me it was just a matter of setting up where I wanted DIM to put things it downloads and pointing it to the install directories.

    CMS takes some work, but it can be done...and done using the Linux native version of Postgre.   I had it working nicely until I screwed up the permissions and haven't gone back to fix it...it's one of those 'someday' things, probably after some new drives/storage space/hardware upgrades. 

     

    Any chance you could make a manual on How to setup the DAZ CMS natively for Linux?

    As doing so I think would be a big benefit for those of us moving away from windows.

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    mjc1016 said:
    Knittingmommy said:

    I have my Windows drive in a portable holder and I'm in the middle of transferring all of my DAZ files over onto the Linux drive where DAZ expects them to be.  It might take awhile.  I'm wondering if anyone has gotten DIM to successfully download files from within Linux and if, yes, what is involved in that?  Right now I don't have CMS or any of the database stuff working so it's all manual downloads.  My files were up to date before the DAZ site went all wonky and then claimed I had 544 legacy files to update which I hadn't done yet.  How do you figure out which files might need updates to download?  I know Jen puts out an update list for the PC stuff, but is there another list somewhere for all of the other updates?

    For me it was just a matter of setting up where I wanted DIM to put things it downloads and pointing it to the install directories.

    CMS takes some work, but it can be done...and done using the Linux native version of Postgre.   I had it working nicely until I screwed up the permissions and haven't gone back to fix it...it's one of those 'someday' things, probably after some new drives/storage space/hardware upgrades. 

    It wasn't the permissions... the extra packages CMS relies on changed and things stopped connecting. I have notes on what is necessary but absolutely no time to deal with it ATM. I have been on the move constantly since Early August and haven't been at my development station for more than a couple of minutes at a time.

    In any case, Linux postgresql works fine with CMS even serving to multiple Windows boxes (as long as the content paths match!!) if some patches are applied to DS.

    Kendall
  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Azure_Zero said:

    Now that would not be a bad idea, if we could make a Document on how to make a Native linux version of Daz.

    Step 1; Have access to the source code.  Nope...and I'm sure that those who do could make it so, if they wanted to...but it is not a priority

    There is one area, that makes a native Linux build a very daunting task...content management.  It becomes a very critical factor that ALL content obeys certain rules, due to case sensetive file systems...or there are massive problems.  Connect does do well to attempt to solve it...but not all content is or is even capable of being Connect only.  And forcing the Linux native version to be Connect only would be a non-starter for many.

    Now something I have noticed, that is a plus for Linux/Wine...more usable space on my video card.  I have similar 1 GB cards in my Linux machine and my Windows HTPC...I can render more items/larger scenes in GPU mode on my Linux machine than on the Windows one, simply because X uses much less of the card's memory than Windows does,

  • Chanteur-de-VentChanteur-de-Vent Posts: 567

    I think the case-sensitive problem can be circumvented by writing some script that would make all filenames/foldernames in a certain location lowercase. If you would run that script every time after DIM, wouldn't that solve the problem? I mean, it's making more information into less, not the other way around.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:

    I think the case-sensitive problem can be circumvented by writing some script that would make all filenames/foldernames in a certain location lowercase. If you would run that script every time after DIM, wouldn't that solve the problem? I mean, it's making more information into less, not the other way around.

    Works for DIM, but what about 3rd party content? Freebies? Older content from elsewhere or only available in the old exe installers (the old Freebie archive)?

    Yeah, you could script it to be run manually, too, but then that's like the days where the 'initialize' script for V4/M4/etc had to be run...and often wasn't (THAT still happens, there's probably one or two forum posts a week about it...)

    There could be other ways of tacking it...

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191
    Fixmypcmike said:
    Knittingmommy said:

    I have my Windows drive in a portable holder and I'm in the middle of transferring all of my DAZ files over onto the Linux drive where DAZ expects them to be.  It might take awhile.  I'm wondering if anyone has gotten DIM to successfully download files from within Linux and if, yes, what is involved in that?  Right now I don't have CMS or any of the database stuff working so it's all manual downloads.  My files were up to date before the DAZ site went all wonky and then claimed I had 544 legacy files to update which I hadn't done yet.  How do you figure out which files might need updates to download?  I know Jen puts out an update list for the PC stuff, but is there another list somewhere for all of the other updates?

    I have a list here:  http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/26282/

    It's limited to things I own plus anything other people add to it, however.

    Thanks, I've bookmarked it!

     

    mjc1016 said:
    Knittingmommy said:

    I have my Windows drive in a portable holder and I'm in the middle of transferring all of my DAZ files over onto the Linux drive where DAZ expects them to be.  It might take awhile.  I'm wondering if anyone has gotten DIM to successfully download files from within Linux and if, yes, what is involved in that?  Right now I don't have CMS or any of the database stuff working so it's all manual downloads.  My files were up to date before the DAZ site went all wonky and then claimed I had 544 legacy files to update which I hadn't done yet.  How do you figure out which files might need updates to download?  I know Jen puts out an update list for the PC stuff, but is there another list somewhere for all of the other updates?

    For me it was just a matter of setting up where I wanted DIM to put things it downloads and pointing it to the install directories.

    CMS takes some work, but it can be done...and done using the Linux native version of Postgre.   I had it working nicely until I screwed up the permissions and haven't gone back to fix it...it's one of those 'someday' things, probably after some new drives/storage space/hardware upgrades. 

    Yeah, I have a list like that!  ;)  Only when Windows crashed, someday became now as far as getting Linux back up and working after I managed to tank it.  :)

     

    Kendall Sears said:
    mjc1016 said:
    Knittingmommy said:

    I have my Windows drive in a portable holder and I'm in the middle of transferring all of my DAZ files over onto the Linux drive where DAZ expects them to be.  It might take awhile.  I'm wondering if anyone has gotten DIM to successfully download files from within Linux and if, yes, what is involved in that?  Right now I don't have CMS or any of the database stuff working so it's all manual downloads.  My files were up to date before the DAZ site went all wonky and then claimed I had 544 legacy files to update which I hadn't done yet.  How do you figure out which files might need updates to download?  I know Jen puts out an update list for the PC stuff, but is there another list somewhere for all of the other updates?

    For me it was just a matter of setting up where I wanted DIM to put things it downloads and pointing it to the install directories.

    CMS takes some work, but it can be done...and done using the Linux native version of Postgre.   I had it working nicely until I screwed up the permissions and haven't gone back to fix it...it's one of those 'someday' things, probably after some new drives/storage space/hardware upgrades. 

     

    It wasn't the permissions... the extra packages CMS relies on changed and things stopped connecting. I have notes on what is necessary but absolutely no time to deal with it ATM. I have been on the move constantly since Early August and haven't been at my development station for more than a couple of minutes at a time.

    In any case, Linux postgresql works fine with CMS even serving to multiple Windows boxes (as long as the content paths match!!) if some patches are applied to DS.

    Kendall

    I'll try to get it working, but that's probably all over my head.  At least I know it was possible at one point.  With all of the site outages, it will be hard to figure out if download fails are due to the site or the database stuff.  I'll work on it, though.  

     

  • Daywalker DesignsDaywalker Designs Posts: 3,586
    mjc1016 said:
    Chanteur-de-Vent said:

    I think the case-sensitive problem can be circumvented by writing some script that would make all filenames/foldernames in a certain location lowercase. If you would run that script every time after DIM, wouldn't that solve the problem? I mean, it's making more information into less, not the other way around.

    Works for DIM, but what about 3rd party content? Freebies? Older content from elsewhere or only available in the old exe installers (the old Freebie archive)?

    Yeah, you could script it to be run manually, too, but then that's like the days where the 'initialize' script for V4/M4/etc had to be run...and often wasn't (THAT still happens, there's probably one or two forum posts a week about it...)

    There could be other ways of tacking it...

    Have one partition on the computer thats running Linux formatted as a Fat32 partition and install the content to that. That way you know that Linux isn't going to give you any problems with case sensitivity.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited October 2016
    Kendall Sears said:
    mjc1016 said:
    Knittingmommy said:

    I have my Windows drive in a portable holder and I'm in the middle of transferring all of my DAZ files over onto the Linux drive where DAZ expects them to be.  It might take awhile.  I'm wondering if anyone has gotten DIM to successfully download files from within Linux and if, yes, what is involved in that?  Right now I don't have CMS or any of the database stuff working so it's all manual downloads.  My files were up to date before the DAZ site went all wonky and then claimed I had 544 legacy files to update which I hadn't done yet.  How do you figure out which files might need updates to download?  I know Jen puts out an update list for the PC stuff, but is there another list somewhere for all of the other updates?

    For me it was just a matter of setting up where I wanted DIM to put things it downloads and pointing it to the install directories.

    CMS takes some work, but it can be done...and done using the Linux native version of Postgre.   I had it working nicely until I screwed up the permissions and haven't gone back to fix it...it's one of those 'someday' things, probably after some new drives/storage space/hardware upgrades. 

     

    It wasn't the permissions... the extra packages CMS relies on changed and things stopped connecting. I have notes on what is necessary but absolutely no time to deal with it ATM. I have been on the move constantly since Early August and haven't been at my development station for more than a couple of minutes at a time.

    In any case, Linux postgresql works fine with CMS even serving to multiple Windows boxes (as long as the content paths match!!) if some patches are applied to DS.

    Kendall

    In my case...it is.  I had a little 1.5 GB 'empty' partition (it had been a FAT32 partition for a long time)...something leftover from moving things around...and I put it all there,  Until I rebooted everything was fine...but that partition is the 'wrong' user/access permissions/etc.  I can go and reset the permissions and get it back...I just haven't bothered to do it permanently.

    Post edited by mjc1016 on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,063
    edited October 2016

    ...hmm, so if I want to run all my Daz (and other Windows based) software without jumping through tonnes of hoops and having to learn scripting), it sounds like my best bet is a dual boot: Linux for online and W7 for offline. As I understand I can do this either by partitioning my C: drive or have each on separate drives the latter which sounds like less trouble.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Separate drives is easier...

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,169
    edited October 2016

    Yes separate drives is easier. Much easier if Windows 7 is installed first. Linux' Grub menu will take over as the boot manager and will give you a choice to boot into Windows or Linux at boot time. Windows, if installed after Linux will of course totally ignore the Linux installation ;).

    Laurie

    Post edited by AllenArt on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,063
    edited October 2016

    ...so as I already have W7 on the current C: Drive adding a separate Linux boot drive would work.

    To go between the two how would one switch, would I have to reboot each time? Also, what would this do the the hierarchy of drives, would the current "C:" become "D:" and "D:" become "E:" possibly causing issues with programme and content paths?  Or can I just designate the Linux drive as "E:"?

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,169
    edited October 2016

    If you install Linux on the second drive, you can have it install the grub menu on the boot drive and the Linux grub menu will take over as the boot manager. Then, every time you reboot, the grub menu will come up and give you the choice to boot into Windows or Linux. 

    Because Windows is already installed on the C drive, there will be no issue with drive hierarchy because Windows won't even see the Linux drive (but Linux will see the Windows drive). When installing Linux just make sure that you don't install it on the Windows drive (usually called sda by the Linux installer). Have a quick read over the info here. It's very easy, especially if you have a regular BIOS and no UEFI. If you have UEFI, it's a little bit tricker. Take note that the drive for the boot loader installation SHOULD be the Windows drive, but that would be the only thing you'd want to put on the Windows drive (other than Windows of course ;)).

    Laurie

    Post edited by AllenArt on
  • GumpOtakuGumpOtaku Posts: 106
    berriboy said:

    This was done on Manjaro Linux, everything straight out of the box.

    Used q4Wine as the wine front end, downloaded DAZ 4.9 and double clicked on the icon. Wine installed it and it works great, only problem is that the sql can't be found. For me it's not a problem as I don't use the smart content pane. I moved myLibrary to another drive before installing Manjero and just pointed DAZ to the new location.

    As you can see from the render it is the 64bit version of DAZ and iray works fine.

    Another great thing about Manjaro is the painless set up of the nVidia drivers. Blender, Octane Render and DAZ all detected my GTX780 CUDA Cores on installation with no problem.

    Haven't installed the Install Manager yet and probably wont try for a while, I have plenty in my library and with the difference in the dolar between Australi and the US I really can't aford to. Add about 35% to the US price for content and that how much it costs in Aus at the moment.

    Sorry it is not a very techie explanation on how I got things working but the truth is I didn't have to do anything real techie. So if you are thinking of moving to Linux, Manjaro might be for you.

    Note: I tried Ubuntu and Mint before Manjero and never got as far as having the nVidia drivers installed corectly for Blender to see my GTX780, just a lot of crashes and rebooting only to find the graphics not working at all, just a dark screen.

    Hi there, can you tell me which version of the Nvidia propretary drivers you are using? For some reason I installed Manhjaro and DS but my GTX 750 is not listed at Render Settings. It's detectable in Help >About Your Video Card tho...

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    Yeah, I knew I'd probably mess up so when I set up my dual boot system last time.  I, temporarily, took out the Windows drive completely so I wouldn't accidentally mess up and then put it back when I was done installing Linux.  Safer that way.  :)  Same with this time, even though I'm not planning a dual boot system, I took out the trashed drives so I didn't accidentally destroy anything I wanted to try and salvage while I was setting up Linux on the new drive.

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,169
    edited October 2016

    If you take out the Windows drive before installing Linux, there will be no C drive to install the Grub boot manager onto and you will have to manually set up the boot manager so that you can have a choice to boot into Windows or Linux at boot time. The Linux installation will install the Grub menu to the Windows C drive, thus giving you an easy choice of OS at boot. As long as you're careful when installing Linux you shouldn't have a problem. Just don't touch anything that says "sda" (this only applies if you're installing to a separate hard drive and NOT a partition). Also, the Linux installer will likely show how all the drives are formatted. Just avoid sda with NTFS or FAT32 or any other windows file system.

    Laurie

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,063
    AllenArt said:

    If you install Linux on the second drive, you can have it install the grub menu on the boot drive and the Linux grub menu will take over as the boot manager. Then, every time you reboot, the grub menu will come up and give you the choice to boot into Windows or Linux. 

    Because Windows is already installed on the C drive, there will be no issue with drive hierarchy because Windows won't even see the Linux drive (but Linux will see the Windows drive). When installing Linux just make sure that you don't install it on the Windows drive (usually called sda by the Linux installer). Have a quick read over the info here. It's very easy, especially if you have a regular BIOS and no UEFI. If you have UEFI, it's a little bit tricker. Take note that the drive for the boot loader installation SHOULD be the Windows drive, but that would be the only thing you'd want to put on the Windows drive (other than Windows of course ;)).

    Laurie

    ...where do I look to see if my BIOS is UEFI?

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    Yeah, I did manually set up the Grub and I told it which to boot into first by default and all that.

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,169
    kyoto kid said:
    AllenArt said:

    If you install Linux on the second drive, you can have it install the grub menu on the boot drive and the Linux grub menu will take over as the boot manager. Then, every time you reboot, the grub menu will come up and give you the choice to boot into Windows or Linux. 

    Because Windows is already installed on the C drive, there will be no issue with drive hierarchy because Windows won't even see the Linux drive (but Linux will see the Windows drive). When installing Linux just make sure that you don't install it on the Windows drive (usually called sda by the Linux installer). Have a quick read over the info here. It's very easy, especially if you have a regular BIOS and no UEFI. If you have UEFI, it's a little bit tricker. Take note that the drive for the boot loader installation SHOULD be the Windows drive, but that would be the only thing you'd want to put on the Windows drive (other than Windows of course ;)).

    Laurie

    ...where do I look to see if my BIOS is UEFI?

    How To Check for BIOS or UEFI

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    GumpOtaku said:
    berriboy said:

    This was done on Manjaro Linux, everything straight out of the box.

    Used q4Wine as the wine front end, downloaded DAZ 4.9 and double clicked on the icon. Wine installed it and it works great, only problem is that the sql can't be found. For me it's not a problem as I don't use the smart content pane. I moved myLibrary to another drive before installing Manjero and just pointed DAZ to the new location.

    As you can see from the render it is the 64bit version of DAZ and iray works fine.

    Another great thing about Manjaro is the painless set up of the nVidia drivers. Blender, Octane Render and DAZ all detected my GTX780 CUDA Cores on installation with no problem.

    Haven't installed the Install Manager yet and probably wont try for a while, I have plenty in my library and with the difference in the dolar between Australi and the US I really can't aford to. Add about 35% to the US price for content and that how much it costs in Aus at the moment.

    Sorry it is not a very techie explanation on how I got things working but the truth is I didn't have to do anything real techie. So if you are thinking of moving to Linux, Manjaro might be for you.

    Note: I tried Ubuntu and Mint before Manjero and never got as far as having the nVidia drivers installed corectly for Blender to see my GTX780, just a lot of crashes and rebooting only to find the graphics not working at all, just a dark screen.

    Hi there, can you tell me which version of the Nvidia propretary drivers you are using? For some reason I installed Manhjaro and DS but my GTX 750 is not listed at Render Settings. It's detectable in Help >About Your Video Card tho...

    Basically any of the recent ones should work. 

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