Harry, I found this on pymol wiki "NVidia 3D NVision kit only supports DirectX software for GeForce (gaming cards) on Windows; users are reporting that they are not able to run PyMOL with NVision with these cards. Get a newer model low end quadro (> G8x graphics core) without the 3 pin mini din (e.g. Quadro 370) or with the 3 pin mini din (e.g. Quadro 3700) for Windows." and this too " The GeForce cards do not support windowed openGL stereo, so we do not support these series of cards for the NVision 3D solution. For linux, you must have a quadro card that has a 3 pin mini din connector. The cheapest/oldest card that will work with linux is the Quadro 3700.* WARNING*: The Quadro FX1400 does not support 3d vision stereo on Windows7 or Linux. " This was posted there a while ago and I was wondering if there has been any update to that which has not been posted.
Regarding the passive monitors, I think they are compatible with linux, after all we have been using zalman for long time, which is technically a passive 3D monitor. I also found posts on the ccp4bb from people happily using LG D2342P monitor, though linux or windows was not mentioned. A On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Harry Mark Greenblatt < [email protected]> wrote: > BS"D > > Dear Alex, > > > I'm not sure why you think the new Geforce cards will be an issue. > Please clarify. > > As far as stereo is concerned, Geforce cards only give stereo under > Windows, not Linux. If you want stereo under Linux you need the Quadro > cards with the stereo option (for example, Quadro 4000 or 5000). Not all > Quadro cards support this option, and so would only give stereo under > Windows, like the Geforce cards. > > Not sure about the passive type of stereo; I have a feeling that will > also only work under Windows. I'm also not sure it works with Pymol and > Coot. Perhaps someone can clarify this. > > As far as I know the stereo under Linux is only the active variety, using > the NVidia 3D Vision glasses. > > Harry > > > ________________________________________ > From: CCP4 bulletin board [[email protected]] on behalf of Alex > Kavian [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ccp4bb] GeForce Graphics cards > > Hi there, > > I have an off-toptic question about Graphics card. My searches on > pymolwiki and ccp4bb archives resulted in the following conclusion: Coot > and pymol are not compatible with the new GeForce graphics cards. Hoewver, > most of the posts I found were from 2009 and 2010. Does anyone here have > any experience with GeForce 660 or 680 for stereo applications of Coot, > Pymol or UCSF chimera? Will quadro cards work equally smooth in the stereo > mode of these programs? Do 3D applications put too much pressure on the > Graphics card which would justify installing dual Graphics card? (not sure > if is relevant, but just for the record, we want to buy passive 3D monitor > due to the budget restrictions). > > Thanks, > Alex >
