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GeoffRiley · Posts: 72 Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Location: Cheshire, England

This feels strange - I'm usually the one dishing out help to others, I rarely come asking for it... however: I've come to a grinding halt on this I cannot seem to get the dongle to be recognised at all - clearly I'm missing something.

I spotted another post saying that it's not a driver that's needed, but rather the correct /dev/ entries, but I'm not finding it yet.

Phil? I got really excited when I saw your message in another group mentioning that the dongle was working.... now I'm feeling all flat. Laughing

Any help appreciated... otherwise I'll have to keep the Windoze machine running. Twisted Evil

Geoff

headus

"I spotted another post saying that it's not a driver that's needed, but rather the correct /dev/ entries, but I'm not finding it yet."

Sorry for the confusion, but 99% of the dongles we ship these days are driverless (requiring the /dev/ tweaks) but you happen to have one of the original dongles that does need the HASP driver to run.

Actually, I cant remember now if my "the 64bit version now works with the dongles" statement applies to the old dongles. I'll check that a bit later today and will report back here with my results.

Phil

headus · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:26 pm Post subject:

OK, I can confirm that our old style HASP dongles do work with the 64bit build of UVLayout. You can get the driver install from ...

http://www.uvlayout.com/hasp

... and I used the HDD_RPM_RedHat_i386.tgz one for my Fedora 13 system. I do have a Kubuntu partition somewhere here ... I'll boot that up to see which driver installer it needs ...

Phil

headus · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:06 pm Post subject:

Good news! I got a HASP dongle working under my Kubuntu 10 boot here. You'll need to use the new cross-platform driver installer script up on the above hasp web page. There's installation instructions inside the TGZ.

One thing to watch out for with UVLayout running under Linux in general, especially on nVidia cards, is that the graphics redraw can sometimes be really slow. In that latest UVLayout 64bit installer is a new preference under the GUI section. Set "OpenGL" to either "Double" or "Int" if you're experiencing slow redraws in the 3D window ... you need to reload your mesh to see what effect any change in the preference might make.

Phil

headus · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:24 pm Post subject:

Oh, and one more thing ... if you get "libtiff" or "libGLw" missing errors when trying to run UVLayout on your Kubuntu 64bit system, I've put copies of those up on the uvlayout.com Support Extras page.

Phil

GeoffRiley · Posts: 72 Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Location: Cheshire, England

Thanks for all that Phil - I'll get a go at it in the morning... um... later today. It's 6:30am UK time and well time I got to bed before I catch myself getting up. Rolling Eyes

I'll let you know how I get on.

Geoff.

headus · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:46 pm Post subject:

Great thanks, no rush though. Try it all out whenever you're ready.

Phil

GeoffRiley · Posts: 72 Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Location: Cheshire, England

Got it!

Not entirely straight forward though; so I shall summarise what was require for Ubuntu 12.03 (64bit).

I checked first of that the ia32 support files were installed; I was pretty sure they were, but was surprised to discover that no package named ia32 was found. A little digging turned up that it's been renamed ia32-libs. Go figure. So first difference to instructions is:

headus · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:13 am Post subject:

Thanks for the installation report! And its great to hear too that your dongle is now working finally under Linux.

Phil