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LINUX/ UBUNTU
Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 7:30 am
by benrob
Hi, I have been using this hardware since 2004 and up until now have had very few problems. I downloaded and installed Ubuntu or Linux as an operating system and then came to Naturalpoint to look for the software needed to operate SmartNav under this new system only to find it isn't here. Is Naturalpoint aware of this problem? Are there some guys that can create some software so that SmartNav can operate under a Linus OS?
Any help or recommendations would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Ben.
Re: LINUX/ UBUNTU
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 3:09 pm
by NaturalPoint - Mike
Hello -
Unfortunately, drivers and software do not exist for linux based systems, as we only support Windows currently. We do occasionally evaluate the need for support in other operating systems, and I do keep a running tally of the requests that we receive for it.
Re: LINUX/ UBUNTU
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 7:36 am
by mjvines
+1 for SmartNav support in Linux!
Re: LINUX/ UBUNTU
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 3:16 am
by Julius
Yes for Ubuntu!
Re: LINUX/ UBUNTU
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:25 am
by rfarrar
Another +1 for Linux support
Re: LINUX/ UBUNTU
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:42 pm
by Hossebo
yeah +1
Re: LINUX/ UBUNTU
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 7:54 am
by nsr1
+1
Re: LINUX/ UBUNTU
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:49 pm
by Franck Dernoncourt
No SmartNAV and no good voice recognition on Linux!
Re: LINUX/ UBUNTU
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:11 am
by billwrs
PLEASE MAKE THIS DRIVER!
Re: LINUX/ UBUNTU
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:59 am
by uglyDwarf
Hi,
I'm a developer of the Linuxtrack project, that so far successfully communicates with TrackIR2 to 5.
From what I gathered, I think that adding support for the SmartNav device should not be all that different (although I'd need some data to be sure).
But the question is - what would NP people say to that (waranties, firmware and things like that)?
As far as I can tell, this would be a win-win situation - linux users would be happy using the device, NP could take its time deciding whether to directly support linux or not, while selling more hardware...
But I'm not sure what is their point of view...
Kind regards,
Michal