3Dconnexion Forum

If you don't know what I am talking about, than you will be fine. You can configure the Space Navigator to be used like a mouse, but this for some reason screws-up the Opensource SpaceNav driver. To do this you would have to add this to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identi...

Use this driver instead:

http://spacenav.sourceforge.net/index.html

and modify the code. Maybe your contribution will help others too.

Hi, check this driver out: http://spacenav.sourceforge.net/index.html I use the SVN version myself and since the sourcecode is available I am playing around with it. The only real thing missing is to set the sensitivity for each application individually, but since I only use the spacenav for Blender...

Thanks for the link. That worked.
In the mean time I have compiled it myself from CVS, which worke too.

Only the "feel" is still awfull, sometimes jerky and sometimes zoom wont work.

Also, my X locks up after a while of use. I suspect the 3dxsrv driver.

I'm on Ubuntu 7.10 AMD64

Hi, I have a Space Navigator PE, Ubuntu Linux 7.10 AMD64, and I grabbed the 64bit version of Blender from http://www.blenderbuilds.com/2007/08/05/august-build-3dconnexion-with-a-prize/ After following the instructions the Space navigator works. However, I cannot switch to "fly mode" using ...

Ubuntu does not work with init anymore, but it uses "Upstart". You can start the driver automatically during boot if you create the following file: /etc/event.d/3dx with the following content: # 3dx # # This service starts the driver for the Space Navigator description "3DConnexion Sp...