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Having troubles running blender in Just-x?

So I've been experimenting with Slitaz alot lately and love how well it works to quickly run many applications on my old low spec laptop from live usb. I would really like to run blender on this old machine with 256 mb ram. To do this, I booted a live usb of slitaz 4.0 onto my more high power computer and installed blender. I then did the "tazpkg writefs" command  to make a new compressed filesystem containing blender. This worked great on my newer machine but unfortunatey it took up slightly too much ram to run on my older low ram laptop. To overcome this, I figured I would have to use the justx version of slitaz 4.0 to install and run blender on so it would use less memory. So I did "tazpkg get-install blender" and it installed. But when I tried to run it from xterm, I just got an error message. I dont really know what to make of it since i am still quite new to this distro, But any suggestions would be great. (Screenshot Below)

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Re: Having troubles running blender in Just-x?

Hi unicornswag,

two things:

- You should run Blender with user tux and NOT root.

- SliTaz use by default vesa driver.

Vesa driver is very basic video driver who doesn't have OpenGL support.

I suggest install the own driver for your computer.

You can also install mesa (implementation of OpenGL)

In xterm, tape to became root

[c]su[/c]

[c]tazpkg get-install mesa[/c]

[c]tazx[/c]

In the screen you can choose your driver

ati for ati card

intel for intel card

nv for nvidia card