System requirements

Autodesk certifies certain computer system configurations as meeting the requirements to work with the Maya software. To determine whether your particular system meets these requirements, please check the following table. The latest information on qualifying systems is always available at www.autodesk.com/qual-charts.

To obtain information about your computer’s processor, memory, and graphics card, use the following commands:

Processor Information

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Memory Information

cat /proc/meminfo

Graphics Card Information

/var/log/Xorg.0.log to open Xorg log file. From here, you can see which graphics card the XServer detected, and which driver is being loaded.

Category	Values
Hardware	Intel^® Pentium^® 4 or higher, EM64T-capable (64-bit), AMD^® Athlon 64^™ or Opteron^® 2 GB or more available memory keyboard three-button mouse with mouse driver software DVD drive network card
Graphics requirements	A graphics card qualified to run Maya. Please refer to: www.autodesk.com/qual-charts Maya expects to obtain specific visuals for use with OpenGL. The preferred visual configuration is: Both single and double buffered RGBA 8/8/8/8, with 24 bit depth buffers. To use the Hardware Render Buffer window, adding Alpha and Accumulator buffers are also required. If Maya cannot obtain the visuals it requests, it usually outputs what was not found and continues if possible. Some aspects of Maya may not work correctly if the expected visuals are not available. Use glxinfo to list currently available visuals. Many graphics card manufacturers document the setup of their graphics card for use with Maya. Refer to the instructions that came with your particular graphics card.
Operating system	Qualified for the following 64-bit operating systems: Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux WS 4.0 update 6 x64 Fedora Core 8 x64 Please check at www.autodesk.com/qual-charts for important updates.
Disk space requirements	Minimum: 400MB (without documentation package) Standard: 450MB (with documentation package)
Other software	The following software must be installed on your workstation: OpenMotif run-time environment With Maya 2009 the required library libXm.so.3 is automatically installed in /usr/autodesk/maya2009-x64/lib. FAM run-time environment The File Access Monitor (FAM) software allows Maya to monitor file changes in the Expression editor. FAM may already be included, so you should check first to see if the files are already installed. Type: rpm -qa \| grep fam or rpm -qa \| grep gamin The normal directory location for libfam.so.0 is /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 The Mozilla Firefox web browser has been qualified to view the Maya Help.
Optional hardware	Wacom tablet—The Wacom tablet works the same as with other programs. Using the pen and tablet overrides mouse operation. When the pen is out of contact with the tablet, the mouse becomes operational. Make sure you install the latest driver software (www.wacom.com).