spaceball again and again 2022

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Re: spaceball again and again 2022

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adrianinsaval wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 9:42 pm Note that it might be necessary to rebuild the package if one of it's dependencies gets updated so if it stops working after an update try cloning the PKGBUILD repo again and rebuilding.
Surelly, thanks for heads up. Either I can exclude dependencies to keep current version which for me is just fine right now ;)
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Re: spaceball again and again 2022

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Yeah, awesome! :D

And should we document something Arch specific at the wiki? Currently we've got these distributions: Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and OpenSuse. 3Dconnexion_input_devices
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M4x wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:49 am And should we document something Arch specific at the wiki? Currently we've got these distributions: Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and OpenSuse. 3Dconnexion_input_devices
Only the fact that for Arch (Garuda in my case) it's better to build spacenavd directly from source. From repo it doesn't work currently. Previously was ok. Right now it's also immpossible to find that package in pacman. At least I wasn't when we discussed about.
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Re: spaceball again and again 2022

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The snap package should be good to go when it comes to 3dconnexion
See https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-snap ... .yaml#L147

I recommend trying the 'edge' (nightly) version
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Re: spaceball again and again 2022

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Was spacenavd ever in the arch repos?
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zawier wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:51 pm [...]
Only the fact that for Arch (Garuda in my case) it's better to build spacenavd directly from source. [...]
I'm uncertain if this should be the recommended way for the distros which are slow regarding providing the latest releases too. Looking at Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE the provided spacenavd version is something between 0.7 and 0.8...
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Re: spaceball again and again 2022

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adrianinsaval wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:06 pm Was spacenavd ever in the arch repos?
Oh yes, I know by hart it was. Previously I have installed it without a problem (a few months back). This time I was at situation when had to ask for help.
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Re: spaceball again and again 2022

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I recommend trying to get v1.0 of:

libspnav
spacenavd
spnavcfg

propagated through the package ecosystem.
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That would be the best of course. But thinking about distros like Debian or Ubuntu LTS... :roll:
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Re: spaceball again and again 2022

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Sorry to hijack this thread but I have the same problems except I use Ubuntu.
I've done what you have, that is:
  • compiled and installed all 3 parts from github, daemon (v1.0), lib and config.
  • All examples work, simple, cube and fly.
  • spnavcfg also works.
  • Blender recognises the mouse.
Freecad still has no clue. I installed it from Ubuntu's 'snap' store, it's version 0.20.
I'm running out of ideas... :cry:
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