> It takes a bit of understanding. Am I correct that if the monitor does > not have a built in emitter, the glasses need to be triggered from > either a remote transmitter plugged into the 3 pin mini din port of a > suitable quadro card for quad buffered, or to a USB port in the case of > consumer GTX (not quad buffered and not supported by molecular modeling > software, for software enabled games etc.).
In Windows I don't know if the GTX cards allow qbs in a window. I haven't tested such a configuration at all. But with a quadro and external emitter in Windows you only need the USB connection to the emitter. In linux you need both the 3 pin and usb connections for external emitters. > If the monitor does have a built in emitter, the glasses are triggered > from the monitor directly with no link to the video board except the > video signal, so any quad-buffered board will work. Are the glasses > triggered effectively directly by the sync-signals within the monitor? > If so why won't Linux work? Let's be specific. The glasses are triggered from a sync signal that comes out of the emitter housed at the top of the monitor. The signal is sent over the dual link DVI-D cable from the quadro, there's no usb or 3 pin mini din cable involved anywhere. The catch is the linux & windows nvidia drivers have built in code specifically to detect monitors that have the built-in 3d vision v2 emitters such as the Asus VG278H. Again, this works fine in Linux and Windows with recent quadro's, but I don't know if GTX cards can do the qbs in a window in Windows (definitely not in Linux). > Asus VG236HE, Acer GD235Hzbid, or BenQ XL2420T are difficult to find > here and very expensive compared to normal list price. I don't know what price range you're looking for but the ones with the built-in emitters like the VG278H are more expensive. It's currently ~$500 USD, so your total with a quadro 600 would be ~$650, or you could get a refurbished quadro 3700 or quadro 370 for much less than the $130 I'm seeing for the 600. There's a list of 3d vision capable monitors below. > I assume the Acer GR235HAbmii won't work with PyMol, Chimera, VMD etc as > it is a passive system. Am I correct? I don't think that's passive since it says it supports one of the 3d methods that bluray devices use (HDMI 1.4) use, but it's not 3d vision or qbs, see Q12 here : http://www.mitsubishi-tv.com/feature/3DTV/3D_FAQ i.e. frame packing != frame sequential != qbs > Can you advise whether the smaller 23" S23A750D might work with a > suitable Quadro e.g. 300, 410, 600. This model includes 3D glasses but I > can't work out whether it has a compatible 3d vision v2 built-in emitter > or not. Looking more at these samsung monitors, I don't think any of these are 3d vision, incl the one I posted on the chimera mailing list. I found this list here of the 3d vision v2 compatible monitors with the lightboost tech : http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1680564 and this is a list from nvidia which includes monitors with built-in emitters and without : http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-system-requirements.html I also think I found the code that your previous stackoverflow link was referencing : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6827737/how-do-i-output-3d-images-to-my-3d-tv/6828590#6828590 ..and they're basically saying the same thing regarding quadro's and quad buffers, except this bit is interesting : "With any luck, Direct3D 12 will require QBS, and thus NVIDIA (and AMD) will expose it in OpenGL" (for consumer cards). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
