Hi,
I might have found a solution to GPU Preview crashes on some machines.
On some machines with nVidia graphic cards, Mesa 3D OpenGL drivers can mess up
your nVidia OpenGL drivers. This may cause Maya, or FumeFX GPU Preview window
inside Maya to crash.
Here is an example how to remove Mesa 3D OpenGL drivers from you system.
This Eyample is writen for Fedora Linux OS. If you use some other Linux
distribution, ask your system administrator to translate those commands for your
Linux distribution.
Example below will work only if you have nVidia graphic card, and you use some
other OpenGL drivers for your graphic card (eg. xorg-x11-drv-nvidia). For
example a system may contain /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGL.so.1 provided by
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia package. Execute commands below as root.
1) Search for OpenGL mesa libraries installed on your computer using command:
Code:
rpm -qa --pipe "fgrep mesa"
Example output:
[code]mesa-libGLw-devel-6.5.1-8.fc12.x86_64
mesa-libOSMesa-7.9-5.fc14.x86_64
mesa-libGL-7.9-5.fc14.x86_64