Hari & Others, At this moment, the LCD flat panel to buy for use with PyMOL is the Zalman M220W (scan-line interleaved, passive stereo 3D).
Unfortunately, last week's nVidia driver updates do not contain the expected support for 120 Hz LCDs from Samsung and ViewSonic. However, my personal belief and conviction is that they will be supported in the near future, and that they will work with PyMOL -- at least under Windows XP and Vista. Furthermore, having personally tested the stereo 3D capabilities of both the Samsung and ViewSonic displays with nVidia 3D Vision emitter and glasses, the Samsung 2233RZ is so much better at generating a clean, nearly ghost-free stereo 3D effect, that I plan to strongly recommend the Samsung 2233RZ over the ViewSonic VX2265wm, if (when) nVidia releases their stereo-3D-capable OpenGL drivers for 120Hz LCDs. Whereas the Samsung's 3D effect is equal to, if not better than a CRT, the ViewSonic is clearly inferior to both -- at least in my experience, using nVidia 3D Vision glasses. Hopefully ViewSonic's future 120 Hz products will be more competitive! So recap: If you need stereo 3D-capable today, then buy a Zalman M220W http://pymol.org/zalman . That display will work with Mac, Windows, and Linux, without need of any special graphics card. You give up half the vertical resolution, but hey -- it works today, and it works quite well. However, if you expect to need a stereo 3D capable LCD in the future, then plan on buying a 120Hz Samsung 2233RZ with the nVidia 3D Vision glasses and an updated Quadro graphics card. This will give you same high-quality, full-resolution 3D effect as a Crystal Eyes-based CRT setup. But please do wait until the critical drivers are released before spending any money, and realize that you may be stuck using Windows for the time being. Cheers, Warren > -----Original Message----- > From: hari jayaram [mailto:hari...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 7:16 AM > To: PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net; c...@jiscmail.ac.uk > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Caution - 120 Hz LCDs: Not CRT killers yet... > > Hi > I am wondering if there is a linux nvidia driver update or > any other hack that allows Crystal Eyes 3 stereo products to > work with the LCD 120Hz flat panel monitors. > > I should have read Warrens warning post (Dated Jan 23 , 2009 > [ccp4bb] Caution - 120 Hz LCDs: Not CRT killers yet) , before > purchasing the Viewsonic VX2265wm 120Hz LCD. But my CRT died > last week and since I was addicted to pymol/coot-in stereo ( > with Crystal Eyes 3 ) , I rushed out and bought this 120 Hz > LCD monitor. > > Of course things dont work . And I am wondering if there is > any update from nvidia or any other workaround that allows > me to get stereo on this setup. > > Monitor : Viewsonic FuHzion VX2265wm 120Hz Graphics card: > Quadro FX 4600 > OS: Ubuntu Linux X86_64 - Hardy Heron 8.04 Stereo glasses: > Crystal Eyes 3 with 3pin mini din connector > > > Thanks for your help in advance > Hari Jayaram > Brandeis University > > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Warren DeLano > <war...@delsci.com> wrote: > > > > Donnie, > > > > This tripped me up for a while too, but I think the stereo > DIN is an > > output (for projector, & Z-screens, etc.) not an input. Suffice it to > > say that the nVidia USB dongle does not work (in my hands, with or > > without USB power) as a VESA-based emitter the way we > apparently both > > hoped it would! > > > > Cheers, > > Warren > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Donnie Berkholz [mailto:dberkh...@gentoo.org] > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:49 AM > > > To: Warren DeLano > > > Cc: PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Caution - 120 Hz LCDs: Not CRT killers yet... > > > > > > On 23:26 Thu 22 Jan , Warren DeLano wrote: > > > > I tested out the Samsung Syncmaster 2233RZ / NVIDIA 3D Vision > > > > bundle today ($599 for a 120 Hz LCD display with one > pair of glasses). > > > > > > > I was very much hoping that this new display would nevertheless > > > > also work with existing nVidia Quadro-based Mac or > Linux systems > > > > with existing emitters and glasses running existing > OpenGL software. > > Sadly, > > > > this does not seem to be the case due at least in part > to the fact > > that > > > > the phase of the sync signal coming out of the Quadro card does > > > > not match the update phase of the LCD display. In > addition, light > > > > from > > the > > > > display itself seems to corrupt the sync signal for > StereoGraphics > > > > glasses. > > > > > > Hi Warren, > > > > > > Did you happen to try the new glasses + emitter with a CRT? I am > > > particularly curious whether this works on Linux, or whether it > > > needs some sort of USB driver stubs so that Linux knows > what to do > > > with > > these > > > devices. > > > > > > It comes with a stereo-DIN cable so it seems like it could work, > > > provided the emitter can get power via USB and the glasses can > > > charge via USB. > > > > > > If the new glasses can work with a CRT, then at least we > could buy > > > stereo bundles now and use all of the parts of them in > some sort of > > > Frankenstein setup pending support for LCD stereo. > > > > > > -- > > > Thanks, > > > Donnie > > > > > > Donnie Berkholz > > > Developer, Gentoo Linux > > > Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the > browser with > > Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. 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