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I am forwarding a reply from James Stroud on using the Quadro FX4500 under OSX 
(either PPC or MacIntel).
I was wondering if anyone has succeeded to get full screen stereo display to 
work in Coot with the Quadro FX4500 (OSX, PPC or MacIntel) and how its 
performance compares to Coot running under Unix.
Perhaps William Scott would like to comment.
Cheers.
-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: James Stroud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 9/18/2006 8:09 AM
To: Chris Ulens
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]: Quadro FX 4500
 
Hi Chris,

I'll answer in-line, below:

On Sunday 17 September 2006 05:12, you wrote:
> Dear James,
> Thanks for those insights.
> Would you care to share more details on your experience with the Quadro
> FX4500 under OSX: -does it support full screen stereo under Coot and Pymol?

"Full screen" is kind of a misnomer. Its up to the application to take over 
the full display. As far as I know, niether of these do "full screen". The 
X-windows version of pymol for OSX can get nearly full screen. The ideal mode 
is called "stereo in a window", so that the rest of the screen can be visible 
without side-effects. The setup we have does this just fine for both O and 
pymol.

Right now, I think coot should be able to do stereo for Mac OS X, but it needs 
to be properly compiled (a real trick). So far, I don't think anyone has done 
this yet, but its probably not too far in the future.

> -are you using a flat screen from Apple or a CRT monitor for stereo
> display? -which emitter or you using in combination with the Quadro card?

My setup is described here, at the very bottom of the page:

  http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Monitors_Hardware_Options

> -has anyone tried setting up stereo display in Coot/Pymol on a Quad Xeon
> Mac Pro? Cheers.

I will be doing this next weekend as a matter of fact. I'll let you know how 
it works.

> -Chris

James

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James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.jamesstroud.com


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