Hi, I am a home user of opensuse, now 12.2, and I have run into difficulty with installing softimage on the system (I have a dual boot pc with xp pro).
I have asked around and looked around but only found hints and things that I don't really get. As far as I can tell, the error is somewhere in the registration of the libraries that softimage wants to use. I think that these libraries it is requesting from xorg. The error is: ------------ /usr/Softimage/Softimage_2011/Application/bin/XSI.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/Softimage/Softimage_2011/Application/bin/libXext.so.6: undefined symbol: _XGetRequest --------- In my searching I have read that maybe this was/is an issue with xorg and/or softimage working together. Softimage is not recommended for this distro, but as far as I can tell it is common to have problems with linux. Rather than give much unrelated info I am hoping that someone has seen this or a similar problem and can help with how to investigate. basic info: moi@linux-1xdl:~> X -version X.Org X Server 1.12.3 Release Date: 2012-07-09 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX Current Operating System: Linux linux-1xdl 3.4.11-2.16-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 26 17:05:00 UTC 2012 (259fc87) x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.4.11-2.16-desktop root=UUID=ea1a789a-08d1-4849-a188-d651fe9afd64 video=1280x1024 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST2000DM001-9YN164_W2404L3F-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts Build Date: 08 January 2013 11:56:04AM Current version of pixman: 0.24.4 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. SUSE LINUX Release 12.2 Mantis 64-bit Kernel Linux 3.4.11-2.16-desktop GNOME 3.4.2 Hardware Memory 7.8 GiB Processor Intel Xeon CPU 3.6 GHZ x2 moi/Softimage-2011.243-linux64> sudo zypper wp libXext.so.6 root's password: Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository --+----------------+---------+-------------+--------+------------------ i | libXext6 | package | 1.3.1-2.1.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-12.2-Oss v | libXext6 | package | 1.3.1-2.1.2 | i586 | openSUSE-12.2-Oss i | libXext6-32bit | package | 1.3.1-2.1.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-12.2-Oss eric/Softimage-2011.243-linux64> _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com