Hi Matic,
I'm using a Quadro 600 on an Asus VG278HR screen on RHEL 6.3. All is
golden. I created xorg.conf (below) by running nvidia-xconfig after
installation of the Nvidia driver. (Recent Nvidia drivers are buggy and
you'll have to wear your stereo glasses upside down from time to time
because the stereo pairs are flipped, but I guess you'd be happy to get
to that point.)
After creation of the xorg.conf file, I added two options
Option "Stereo" "10"
and
Option "Composite" "Disable"
in sections Screen and Extensions, respectively.
Hope that helps.
Andreas
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 331.20
(buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-05) Wed Oct 30 18:20:53 PDT 2013
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "10"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1080" "1920x1080_120"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
On 10/03/2014 9:23, Matic Kisovec wrote:
Dear everybody,
to my recent experience not everything is good in the stereo world.
Since I see that others don't have these problems (and I am happy/sad to
see that the same exact combinations work without problems) I would just
like to add my experience.
For the past 4 months I have been struggling to configure a stereo setup
for viewing structures in Pymol.
I got the VG278HR and PNY Quadro K600 connected over the original DVI-D
cable. Since then I was unable to get anything in stereo on Linux (tried
Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora). Unfortunately I get a blank/black screen
whenever I use the stereo option in xorg.conf. Also tried changing the
motherboard and CPU but got the same result.
In Windows the demo stuff from Nvidia works just fine but again I have
problems with Pymol. So far the only way to see anything connected to
molecular structures in Windows was via DVI-to-HDMI cable but due to
HDMI restrictions the quality isn't as good as it would be over DVI-D.
If I use DVI-D that was shipped with the monitor the quadro card is
detected in Pymol but the monitor doesn't switch to stereo.
I have been in contact with the company that makes Quadro cards (PNY)
but they were unable to help me. I also contacted some very kind users
of CCP4BB and they kindly answered a bunch of question regarding
specific setup options. Thanks again! Still there was no success so far.
I am slowly giving up on the stereo so if anybody has any ideas/thoughts
what could be wrong/done I would greatly appreciate any insight.
Kind regards,
Matic
--
Andreas Förster
Crystallization and X-ray Facility Manager
Centre for Structural Biology
Imperial College London
