Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Matic, I am struggling with Ubuntu on this issue. The Nvidia driver needs the 'Composite' function disabled in order to function in 3D.  This required the use of the Unity-2D package to disable the 3D used in the Ubuntu desktop effects.  This worked

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Hi Nic, There is no reason that you have to use the Unity desktop at all. I prefer using the XFCE4 desktop myself. It is easily installable from the Ubuntu repositories and then you just have to select it at login. Cheers, Rob On Tue, 2014-03-11 14:44 EDT, Nic Steussy csteu...@purdue.edu

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Hi Nic, There is no reason that you have to use the Unity desktop at all. I prefer using the XFCE4 desktop myself. It is easily installable from the Ubuntu repositories and then you just have to select it at login. In one of the xfce4 settings options (Window Manager Tweaks) you can disable

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

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

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

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

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Hi, this is probaly due to the transition from old TFT style to new IPS panel based monitors... Several new passive 3d monitors are hitting the market such as AOC d2769Vh and the Philips Gioco 278G4. Both are based on 27" IPS Monitor

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

I beg to differ on this: Also, passive screens have a pol-filter in place, the fine lines of which you will observe on a white background, the more disturbing the closer the viewing distance to the screen is. So, for general office applications (writing text), the screens are less useful. Our

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Every now and then I pipe on this as well. We have Zalman monitors here - I bought them about 4 years ago - when you could not buy them any more in the states. I just bought them on Ebay - they came new in the box directly from China. The person did fed-ex shipping - did not cost any extra,

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Thanks to everyone who responded, on and off the list. I thought I'd post a quick summary. To clarify my question slightly (if belatedly) I'm specifically looking for a passive 3D solution to plug into my MacBook Pro whilst on sabbatical in the USA. I'll be using it for a mixture of 2D and 3D

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Thanks! we're gonna test one of the lg's from bh, one of our zalman's just died today. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Shaun Lott s.l...@auckland.ac.nz wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded, on and off the list. I thought I'd post a quick summary. To clarify my question slightly (if

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

A rather US-centric question on passive 3D monitors... I'm just getting set up in the US, and I'm surprised on how few passive 3D monitors seem to be around - many models seem listed as 'out of stock' when looking in the usual places (Amazon, NewEgg, BestBuys, Walmart etc.) The best deal I

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Hi Alice, I've got an LG DM2352D-PZ passive stereo monitor, which seems to be comparable to the Zalman and works under the Zalman setting in coot and ccp4mg on my Mac. I've been happy with it, at least since I worked out some video settings (very different from the defaults) that made it

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Yes, my understanding too is that they all work at HD resolution, which is pretty unimpressive if you halve the vertical frequency. But that's what constitutes a cheap high-resolution screen this days. One can only wait and hope that people get into the 4K monitors, when life will become

[ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Hi all, I want to buy a stereo monitor for use with Pymol and Coot. I have a Zalman monitor currently but want another monitor for use by others in the lab. It seems that Zalman monitors have been discontinued. Does anyone have experience with other monitors and could share which are

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo monitors for use with Pymol and Coot

Alice and all, There is a saying about the one-eyed man, into which category I definitely fall on the subject of stereo monitors. However, this is what I currently understand: I don't actually _know_ from direct experience if any of the below work, but I am moving to a new