Maya crashes at the when uv's are selected

[adamn]

Upon selecting uv's, going to the uv texture editor, and transforming, rotating, scaling or editing of any kind, maya will crash and give a signal 11 (unknown error) message. When the crash save is opened, it immediatly crashes. Running KDE 3.2, Mandrake 10, newest nvidia driver. Please help! I cannot finish my project with this happening every time! I am a texture artist. I have unistalled and reinstalled maya 6 rpm twice. Please help!

[gmask]

Try installing an older driver or even setting the display to a smaller resolution like 1280x1024 instead of 1600x1200

[adamn]

tried with a 5xxx driver, but I cannot get it to configure to my kernel. I'm only running at 1184 x something, as my moniter stinks. Nvidia wants my kernel header, but claims it isn't installed. How do I do this with Manrake 10?

[gmask]

I have no idea

[adamn]

Still can't install another driver, but I desperatly need to do this operation (transforming of uv's) It crashes under any scene when this is attempted. Please, can you think of anything else it could be?

[gmask]

Which version of Maya is this 5 or 6 not that it matters? Have you tried deleting your prefs in your user directory?

[deke-kincaid]

What version of the kernel do you have installed? You need to download 6116(or something like that) if your running 2.6.5 or higher.

[adamn]

deleted my /home/*/maya/6.0/prefs folder, to no avail, running maya 6.0.1 (just updated to see whether it would solve the problem) Nope...
I've done somemore testing, and maya will only crash when faces are selected in the perspective window, and then the uv's are selected in the UV texture editor. If uv's are selected in the perspective window, and in the uv texture editor, it will not crash. I am so lost...
Help!

[adamn]

I am currently running 6116

[gmask]

Well it sounds like a bug but what I don't understand is how you can have faces selected in one view and UV's in the UV editor.. I can't do that on Windows. If I select faces and then go into the UV editor and choose UV's from the marking menu and then drag a selection I loose the face selection.

All I can say is avoid doing that. Since Mandrake is not certified for Maya there is not much hope of a fix but you should still file a bug report on the alias website.

[adamn]

I think we may have found something....
The faces under Linux remain selected in the perspective and the uv's are selected as well...
Very odd...

[adamn]

Tried it in Windows XP
and it crashed!
It must be a Maya bug or hardware problem....
argh...

[gmask]

I wonder if someone using Redhat would get the same thing or not?

[deke-kincaid]

did you turn off klipper in kde?

[adamn]

I would assume my problem is due to the fact that maya does not deselect the face when the uv's are selected and therefore cannot transform the uvs AND the faces.
Since it happens on both linux and windows, I would also assume it is not an os problem. This leaves hardware or software, but I doubt that this could be a hardware problem.
And yes, klipper is disabled (much to my sadness)

[gmask]

Not on my system (XP -NvidiaFX1000) I'm assuming that you have a dual boot and the crash is happening in either OS on the same system? That points to hardware being the problem. Which nvidia card do you have?

[adamn]

not a pro card
can't afford one at the moment...
Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 ultra
Works well with hardware texturing, paint fx, and everything else, but, I assume, this...
Well, that stinks....
nothing I can do about it aparently....

[gmask]

Yup looks like its the card which is not qualified for Maya anyway and is running under a non qualified OS.

[user_deleted]

If you can't afford to upgrade to either a DCC card or a higher end gaming card such as the Geforce 6800 then you could try hardware modding your current card to enable Quadro features. Doing a Google search should provide you with not only instructions on hardware modding cards but also before and after pictures of the resistor moved.

Example:
Geforce FX 5700 modded to Quadro 1000
Geforce FX 5800 modded to Quadro 2000
Geforce FX 5900 modded to Quadro 3000
Geforce 6800 modded to Quadro 4000

[joojaa]

HArdware modding doesent produce a real quaddro tough... Tried to run gelato on one and qgeuss what it didnt work so maybe the truuth is that the chipset is somehow cripled in gamer cards.