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From: Carsten Olbrich (ocarsten_at_googlemail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2007 - 11:23:01 CST

Dear all,

we bought a SpaceNavigator (PE) (3DConnexion) and I still try to get
this device working in Linux (SuseLinux 10.1).
It works fine in Windows with the corresponding driver and I don't
need to configure anything corresponding to VMD.
In Linux it looks different:
   - I managed to install the driver and all example programs, which
are distributed with the driver, work fine but not VMD.
     Therefor I added following to .vmdsensors: device spacenav
sballtracker://local//proc/bus/usb/005/036
     But VMD doesn't respond on moving the device.
   - I also tried to use VRPN (Version 7.14) with this configuration:
    vrpn_3DConnexion_Navigator device0
     The client "vrpn_print_devices" program can connect to the
vrpn_server and prints for instance

      Analog device0_at_localhost:
          0.09, 0.07, -0.47, 0.19, -0.17, 0.16 (6 chans)
      Analog device0_at_localhost:
          0.01, 0.07, -0.47, 0.19, -0.17, 0.16 (6 chans)
      Analog device0_at_localhost:
          0.01, 0.07, -0.07, 0.19, -0.17, 0.16 (6 chans)

      if I move the device.
      Then I added following to .vmdsensors:
         device spacenavtracker vrpntracker://exciton/device0
         device spacenavbuttons vrpnbuttons://exciton/device0
      The chose the tracker and the buttons in the TOOLS menu but
nothing happens except the message:

vrpn: Connection request received: 127.0.0.2 45092
vrpn_Connection: VRPN Note: minor version number doesn't match:
(prefer 'vrpn: ver. 07.14', got 'vrpn: ver. 07.03 0'). This is not
normally a problem.

I hope someone might help me to get our SpaceNavigator working.

Regards,
Carsten