On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 16:33 +0100, Michael Hothorn wrote: > Dear all, > > sorry for the off topic question (that has been asked many times before, > but the hardware keeps changing): I want to buy a linux workstation with > Nvidia 3D vision and an Alienware OptX AW2310 23-inch 3D TFT monitor. > This set-up suggested by the CCP4 wiki for TFT stereo. Has anyone a > similar set-up running under linux and can suggest a matching graphics > card? It would be perfect if it could handle twinview with a second, non > 3D/stereo TFT monitor. Does the Nvidia Quadro 4000 do this, and is the > Nvidia driver running stable under linux? >
Dear Michael, We have exactly that set up running here. A dual screen linux machine with one Alienware OptV AW2310 screen running in stereo using the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 card and the second screen in 'normal' mode. As far as I can remember, the only restriction is that the second screen can only display the same resolution as the first. Just remember that you need the optional stereo out connector as well (make sure it is the Quadro 4000 model). This uses an additional slot, separate from the graphic card, on the back of the machine. The current NVIDIA driver works fine and the quality of the stereo is very good. Additionally, if you are going to have a lot of machines with this setup, then you may want to consider the 3D Vision Pro, which uses radio transmission to talk to the glasses and allows pairing of glasses to individual computers. The standard 3D Vision systems uses Infra-Red and the glasses can get confused with if two people are using stereo next to each other. The 3D Vision Pro is considerably more expensive though. Hope this helps, Andrew -- Andrew Purkiss X-ray Laboratory Manager, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK.
