Fedora 8 x86_64 with spacenavd 0.3.2 and blender 2.48a

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GPD
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Fedora 8 x86_64 with spacenavd 0.3.2 and blender 2.48a

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My distribution is Fedora 8 X86_64 running 2.6.26.8-57.fc8
Used blender 2.48a from the default repository of fedora
The proprietary drivers gave issues to me, so used spacenavd-0.3.2 and
spnavcfg-0.2.1 of John Tsiombikas.

1) download, extract, configure, make, make install and voila, then /etc/init.d/spacenavd start and the light goes on, /etc/init.d/spacenavd stop and the light goes off (and by the way the daemon starts/stops).

2) From the drivers of 3dconnexions extract the xcube file and ran it and verify that indeed it runs as it should. A library gave me an issue with xcube (libXm.so.3 was not in F8 which has libXm.so.6) and got it from another older rpm.

3) Then download file blender-ndof-2008-03-15-linux-glibc27-py25-x86_64
and get its 3DxNdofBlender.plug into .blender/plugins/ at your user's home

4) start blender from terminal and see:
Compiled with Python version 2.5.1.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
3Dconnexion blender plug-in: loaded.

5) Then in the main gui of blender just play with the controller and everything should be OK. (Btw, the fly mode was the most useful, because it makes the axes behave naturally, the other modes seemed inversed to me).

5a) if it is not, exit and restart. Some times it gives me that. If this fails, stop and start daemon and if that fails, unplug/plug, start daemon and then blender. It happens very rarely, but this fixes it that ALL the time for me.

All the best...

p.s. sorry for copy paste, just realised that first post was not very useful where posted
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