I'll second Jim on this. Just this week, I set up my linux box with the nvidia 3d vision 2 kit which I use with the ASUS VG278HE. My graphics card is the quadro K4000 and the only pitfall was that I had to purchase the 3 pin connector to get it to sync:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/PNY-full-height-bracket/2277933.aspx Good Luck- Todd ________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Jim Fairman [fairman....@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 9:52 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] active 3D monitors: successor of Asus VG278HR? Hi Tobias, You most definitely do not need a built-in emitter for your system to work. Instead you use the little emitter "temple" that comes with a set of the glasses<http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-3d-vision2-wireless-glasses-kit-us.html>. In Windows, the emitter can be driven via USB, but for Linux it will need to be driven by the 3-pin stereo connector that plugs directly into your Quadro-class graphics card. You can just place the emitter anywhere that the glasses have a clear line of sight to while you are wearing them. I usually pick directly underneath the screen. The ASUS VG278HE<http://www.amazon.com/VG278HE-27-Inch-Screen-LED-lit-Monitor/dp/B00906HM6K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420732033&sr=8-1&keywords=ASUS+VG278HE> (without built in emitter) is in stock over at Amazon. Cheers, Jim On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Tobias Beck <tobiasb...@gmail.com<mailto:tobiasb...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear all, I am looking again at 3D monitors. Last year I bought for my old lab the VG278HR and the PNY K600, as advised by the CCP4BB. (The 3D test images from Nvidia were running fine under Windows, but I did not get around to finish the set up with pymol and coot under linux.) Now at a new place, I looked at available monitors again (that have the built-in emitter since I want to use the K600 graphics card) and noticed that the VG278HR is out of stock. The VG278H, which seems to be a very similar model, is also out of stock. This page http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-displays.html also lists the Acer HN274H as a 27'' monitor with built-in emitter, but that seems to be out of stock as well (I would prefer not to buy a refurbished or used one). The monitors mentioned above are also listed here: http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/Stereo (The smaller BenQ XL2420TX listed there is also out of stock). Has anybody ordered a 3D monitor with built-in emitter recently or could provide me with a current list of 27'' monitors with built-in emitters? I checked with Nvidia via their chat support, but they did not have an updated list, just provided links to the manufacturers' homepages. If monitors with built-in emitters are not available anymore, I need to buy a different graphics card in order for the setup to work with linux, right? Thank you and best wishes, Tobias. -- ___________________________________________ Dr. Tobias Beck - group leader - RWTH Aachen University Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Landoltweg 1, office: 304N 52056 Aachen, Germany phone: +49-241-80-90057<tel:%2B49-241-80-90057> fax: +49-241-80-99003<tel:%2B49-241-80-99003> ___________________________________________ -- Jim Fairman, Ph D. Group Leader I - Crystallography Beryllium<http://www.be4.com> Tel: 206-780-8914 Cell: 240-479-6575 E-mail: fairman....@gmail.com<mailto:fairman....@gmail.com> jfair...@embios.com<mailto:jfair...@embios.com>
