Maya 8.5 And Opensuse 10.2 Startup Error

[jersey-jfp]

I recently installed Maya SP1 on openSuSE 10.2 When I try to start it the maya main window opens for about a second then closes. I tried launching it from the command line and got the following:

maya encountered a fatal error

Signal: 11 (Unknown Signal)
Fatal Error. Attempting to save in /tmp/username.20070806.1213.ma

Also, when installing Maya I also received this message:

/usr/aw/COM/bin/installKey: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

Is that causing this problem? Is there something I need to do about that?
Also, I don't know how to disable SELinux in openSuSE.

Any help with these problems is appreciated.

[mandarin]

InstallKey has a dependency on OpenMotif with a version of the library, libXm.so.2
This is independent of Maya, and only used for installing a license file, if you don't do it manually, just creating the license file in /var/flexlm/aw.dat

Maya uses libXm.so.3 which is included with the Maya runtime directory MAYA_LOCATION/lib

To find out where Maya is crashing run it under a debugger, such as gdb and see what the traceback is like.

maya -d gdb
r

bt when Maya crashes.

Most likely problems include not having OpenGL driver installed properly. use glxinfo program to see what driver/renderer is in use. What visuals are available.

[doku]

i had the same problem. Change the colors in your display settings from millions of colors to thousands of colors 16bit. Restart the pc and run Maya.

[jersey-jfp]

Thx so much!! That works! (actually now I'm using 10.3, but it still worked).

However, is there a way to fix it launching without lowering the image quality on my screen? Also, is there a way to make the maya interface more beautiful in linux? It looks really nasty and is pretty cumbersome.