Blender-Illegal instruction(SOLVED)

[trustytrev]

Hello,
       I have installed blender on my machine and it is fully updated.
The specs are: Gigabyte G-7N400E motherboard NForce2 chipset
                      Geforce Nvidia FX5200 AGP graphics card
                      1 GB memory
                      2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs
                      KDE 4.6.5
                      PCLinuxOS 2012 fully updated.
                      AMD Athlon XP 2500+
When I try to start Blender I get the following at the command prompt:

blender -d
Color management: using fallback mode for management
Blender 2.64 (sub 2)
Build: 2012-10-15 04:04:11 Linux Release
argv[0] = blender
argv[1] = -d
Illegal instruction

How or where would I find what is causing this problem?
Is there a log I could check?
Thanks.
trustytrev.

[jimwilk]

trustytrev,

As per our discussions in another thread, started by you, I can start Blender 2.64 on this LXDE version of PCLinuxOS by any of these methods:

From the Applications Menu
In a terminal, with root privileges by issuing the command blender
In a terminal, with root privileges by issuing the command blender -d
In a terminal as normal user by using the command blender
In a terminal as normal user by using the command blender -d

Later, I will repeat the experiment on the KDE desktop machine, and report back.

Jim

[trustytrev]

Hello,
        Thanks Jim.I have blender working on a Dell D610 Laptop with PCLinuxOS 2012 KDE ok.It is the desktops running KDE that have the problem so I need to ascertain if the problem is processor or video related.The use of Blender is preferable using as big a screen as possible with a desktop.
trustytrev.

[jimwilk]

trustytrev,
As per your request, I have tried main desktop machine (PCLinuxOS 2012.08 KDE ) and the same set of startups  that I used in my previous post (Laptop with 2012.06 LXDE) worked exactly the same. Blender 2.64 started every time.

Jim

[trustytrev]

Hello Jim,
      What kernel are you using?
trustytrev.

[trustytrev]

Hello,
       I got this response  in the blenderartists.org forum:

Hi, these are very old graphics cards, cpus with sse instruction sets are not longer supported.
You can get info about with "cat /proc/cpuinfo" in a terminal.
Try older builds, 2.63 was for older cpu. iirc.

http://download.blender.org/release/

Athlon XP and fx 5200 are about 10 years old, most of 3d software are not working on this hardware.

Cheers, mib.


I guess this means I need an older version to work on my desktops.
trustytrev.

[trustytrev]

Hello,
      I think it will be a case of uninstalling Blender 2.64a and rolling back to 2.63a.I can uninstall with Synaptic easily enough but replacing it with 2.63a is the difficult bit.If possible I would like to install it with Synaptic then pin it to stop it updating.Is anyone able to offer any guidance on how to go about this?
Thanks.
trustytrev.

[trustytrev]

Hello,
      I downloaded blender 2.63a from blender.org and installed it in my home directory.It works.
I would have preferred to do it with Synaptic but that does not seem to be possible.
trustytrev.

[JohnW_57]

Is (or was) python3 (in repository) installed?

JohnW

[trustytrev]

Is (or was) python3 (in repository) installed?

JohnW

Hello,
       I had installed python3 with Synaptic fairly early on.
trustytrev.