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Installing Bumblebee for using gazebo and rviz on asus 1215n

25/01 14:24

Posted by r0s in Herramientas / Tools, Linux | No Comments

I installed ubuntu 11.04 (natty) as a fast solution for the problems I found with 11.10 and in this version I found problems with the drivers of the graphics card to be able to run gazebo and rviz. I found the next error when trying to run gazebo:

Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0.0″.
Insufficient GL support

To solve the problem it’s enough to install Bumblebee following the instructions of: https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee/+archive/stable

sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bumblebee

sudo usermod -a -G bumblebee $USER

Reboot and to try if it works they recommend running for 30s: glxspheres
Then compare it with optirun running: optirun glxspheres

In my case I can see how I go from 10fps to 31fps!

When running gazebo without optirun I found the following error:
XRequest.137: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 0×4400002

But using optirun this error does not show up. And we win some fps.

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Installing ROS electric and ROS diamondback on Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10)

04/01 14:20

Posted by r0s in Linux, Programacion / Programming | No Comments

The thing is that I installeds first on Ubuntu 11.10 ROS electric using their instructions, then I needed to install ROS diamondback.

I tried to use their instructions to install it from the repositories and I found this problem:

sudo apt-get install ros-diamondback-desktop-full
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ros-diamondback-desktop-full : Depends: ros-diamondback-ros-tutorials (= 0.2.4-s1312445230~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-geometry-tutorials (= 0.1.3-s1312445373~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-slam-gmapping (= 1.2.3-s1312435634~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-ros (= 1.4.9-s1312417708~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-visualization (= 1.4.1-s1312432000~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-vision-opencv (= 1.4.3-s1312425872~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-perception-pcl (= 0.10.0-s1312427042~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-rx (= 1.4.2-s1312430459~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-image-pipeline (= 1.4.2-s1312437407~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-simulator-gazebo (= 1.2.8-s1312440157~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-diagnostics-monitors (= 1.4.0-s1312439740~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-simulator-stage (= 1.2.5-s1312437801~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-image-common (= 1.4.1-s1312425748~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-common-tutorials (= 0.1.2-s1312463072~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-ros-comm (= 1.4.7-s1312424712~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-visualization-common (= 1.4.2-s1312430681~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-physics-ode (= 1.4.1-s1312430103~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-driver-common (= 1.2.3-s1312425659~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-executive-smach (= 1.0.2-s1312435548~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-common-msgs (= 1.4.0-s1312425065~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-image-transport-plugins (= 1.4.1-s1312426755~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-robot-model (= 1.4.0-s1312427974~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-visualization-tutorials (= 0.2.2-s1312464635~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-geometry (= 1.4.2-s1312425346~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-documentation (= 1.4.1-s1312464754~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-executive-smach-visualization (= 1.0.1-s1312459854~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-laser-pipeline (= 1.2.0-s1312429600~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-common (= 1.4.3-s1312425161~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-diagnostics (= 1.4.0-s1312425553~lucid) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ros-diamondback-navigation (= 1.4.1-s1312429823~lucid) but it is not going to be installed”

I started trying to correct it and I followed the next (failed) steps:
So I tried to install it from source with this instructions. In a step (in the package geometry) I got asked for an user and password, I just hit Enter and everything went fine.

Changed the path where to install as by default is ~/ros but I found it nicer to be in /opt.

This lasted… one hour. And I got an error in the end, so I wasn’t happy.

So I found this link: http://answers.ros.org/question/2505/installing-ros-diamondback-on-ubuntu-1110-oneiric
Where a good soul explains how to install it. I find it ugly, but works!

Oh, and finally I need to be sure that I am using the correct version of ROS putting in my .bashrc the line:

source /opt/ros/diamondback/setup.bash

(or the one that is correct in that moment, electric, or diamondback).

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