Should anyone run into this in the future, this appears to be symptomatic of having a graphics card with a bad emitter port.
Thanks again to everybody who had suggestions for me, Pete > Hopefully somebody's run into this one previously, and can give me some > hints... > > I've almost gotten a new stereo system setup (x64 running kubuntu feisty) > using a PNY nvidia quadro 4500 graphics card and nuvision 60GX emitter > (and a DEC CRT monitor...) with the nvidia (not nv) xorg driver. > > Almost in the sense that Xorg.0.log reports stereo as functional (stereo 3 > in xorg.conf), and coot and pymol both act like they've got hardware > stereo (stdout in the respective terminal, and display window shows two > slightly offset, overlapping images): but the emitter doesn't power on (no > LED illumination, and also no power switch...although I have hopefully > flipped the "reverse stereo" switch on the back a few times). The nvidia > kernel module is loaded, and glxinfo shows nvidia in the vendor string. > The ati fglrx driver required a separate option for stereo sync; but from > the documentation it doesn't appear that the nvidia driver does. > > I've tested the emitter on another system, and it works fine there. I've > also tried the drivers from the ubuntu repositories and directly from > nvidia (both behave the same way). > > Does anyone have suggestions for further troubleshooting? Or, even > better, am I missing something obvious? > > Thanks, > > Pete > > > Pete Meyer > Fu Lab > BMCB grad student > Cornell University > Pete Meyer Fu Lab BMCB grad student Cornell University
