Alexander, What graphics card were you using in the demo system? From my experience, it seems only the high end card (FX3700 and up) can do this (having the 3-pin stereo connector). This is different from the situation for Windows where a low end card like FX380 works fine. The 3-pin stereo cable is part of the 3D Vision kit in our purchase.
Yong -------------------- Yong Wang, Ph.D. Macromolecular Crystallography Eli Lilly and Company, DC 0403 Lilly Corporate Center Indianapolis, IN 46285 Tel: (317) 655-9145 Fax: (317) 651-6333 E-mail: wang_y...@lilly.com alexander.schif...@sanofi-aventis.com Sent by: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> 01/15/2010 03:11 AM Please respond to alexander.schif...@sanofi-aventis.com To CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK cc Subject [ccp4bb] Stereo TFT Dear all, We had a demo of the ViewSonic® FuHzion? VX2265wm and Nvidia 3D Vision system yesterday. The stereo quality is equivalent/superior to our Stereographics/CRT setup. We have tested coot and pymol in the normal hardware stereo mode. There are several advantages besides space requirements and availability: integrated recharchable battery and you can work with a second non stereo TFT to expand the desktop as the glasses do not influence other TFTs (unlike Stereographics). On the ViewSonic TFT has a good image quality, however when looking at a plain coloured background a fine grid is visible. In my opinion it does not affect the normal crystallographic work and depending on you background settings you might not even notice it. As far as I understood the key requirements for linux are a quadro graphics card with 3-pin stereo connector and the VESA 3-pin stereo cable that is described in the manual from the Nvidia website but not included in the package in all countries. Best regards, Alexander Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards / Cordialement Dr. Alexander Schiffer Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH R&D CAS Structural Biology FFM Industriepark Hoechst Bldg. G877, Room 029 D-65926 Frankfurt am Main t: +49 69 305 24896 f: +49 69 305 80169 w:www.sanofi-aventis.de ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH · Sitz der Gesellschaft: Frankfurt am Main · Handelsregister: Frankfurt am Main, Abt. B Nr. 40661 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Hanspeter Spek - Geschäftsführer: Dr. Martin Siewert (Vorsitzender), Ulf Bialojahn, Dr. Matthias Braun, Peter Guenter, Prof. Dr. Dr. Werner Kramer, Dr. Klaus Menken, Dr. Heinz Riederer *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************