Dear David:
I don't know if anyone answered this, but I think for #1 you need to issue
the command
defaults write com.apple.x11 enable_stereo -bool true
For #2, I think the latest X11 from here works ok, but I don't actually have
a way to check it:
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki
HTH,
Bill
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM, David Bruce McKay <[email protected]
> wrote:
> Two questions RE hardware (dual images on CRT monitor, 3-D with stereo
> glasses) stereo on a Macintosh.
>
> 1 We have a configuration:
>
> Mac dual Intel processors OS 10.4.11
> NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card
> X11 version 1.1.3
>
> It runs hardware stereo in O and Pymol , which don't require an X-window
> terminal, and will do side-by-side stereo in Coot run from an X11 window,
> but when we try to do hardware stereo, we get message, "This computer
> appears not to be able to do hardware stereo". This must have a simple fix,
> but I haven't found it.
>
> 2. Is there a combination of Mac OS 10.5.x and Xquartz 2.x.x that does
> hardware stereo reliably?
>
>
>
>
> Dave McKay
> Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
> University of Colorado, Boulder
>
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