HOWTO: Installing Maya 7.0

[tehquickness]

Did anyone find an answer as to why ./lmhostid can not see what the host id?
here is my output:

lmhostid - Copyright (c) 1989-2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ""

There must be a way to solve this problem. Is there a way to see what settings the lmhostid is checking? I would love to solve this problem as I really need this for architecture studio class.

[mech7]

This works good for maya 8.5 the interface is damn ugly though under Linux

[Engnome]

This works good for maya 8.5 the interface is damn ugly though under Linux

Yup, maya uses openmotif which doesn't blend very well with GNOME (havent tried kde)

Does anyone get the "The main window is black after a menu has been closed" It's very annoying to have to pan or rotate to get rid of the black artifacts.

[dagooze]

I got the same stupit window problem as gga73 described.
The outliner, hypershade, ... always go away when working in the maya main window. Would be really kewl if some1 would come up with a solution for that so the child windows stay on top of the main window.

cheers

dagooze

[tempo500]

i still haven't entirely got used to the window focus thing... but i got used to it and it has some benefits too... anyway... i put a shortcut on fullscreen and "always on top" which can be found under the program icon on the left side of the window bar. phil

[dagooze]

This On Top thing is a good thing that helps ... but I don't get it with this shortcut.
when I restart maya I always have to go to the outliner, hypershade for a new round to make em stay on to of the viewport/main window.

thx

dagoose

[pgatrick]

Anyone have a problem with window contents being all messed up after scrolling? Any ideas how to fix it? Other parts of the display are sort of scrambled as well..

[pgatrick]

Anyone have a problem with window contents being all messed up after scrolling? Any ideas how to fix it? Other parts of the display are sort of scrambled as well..

Nevermind I got it fixed. Just had to disable compositing in my xorg.conf.

[affected]

Anyone else have an issue where pressing space a number of times in quick succession crashes maya 7.0? This is easy to do by accident since sometimes maya does not respond when pressing space to switch between views. Wonder if there's anything to be done about it...

[jujoje]

Anyone else have an issue where pressing space a number of times in quick succession crashes maya 7.0? This is easy to do by accident since sometimes maya does not respond when pressing space to switch between views. Wonder if there's anything to be done about it...

Have you got beryl or compiz enabled? With either of these pressing space will cause ubuntu to hard crash, although it should work fine if you disable desktop-effects\compiz temporarily. If your not using them I'm not sure what could be causing it.

On a related note has anyone found a workaround for the crash that occurs when you hold down one of the transform keys (qwer) to bring up the local/world transform menu? I found this also caused ubuntu to hard crash even without have desktop acceleration on (or installed). Seems like it's a bug with Maya since the same thing happens in SUSE 10.2, Fedora and Debian.