Hi Andrew: I don't have the hardware to test it on, but as far as I am aware, it will do active stereo. At least that is the intention.
Bill PS: I'm compiling various versions of 0.6.2. Somehow I missed the fact that the stable release had come out two weeks ago. Sorry. On Jul 7, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Andrew T. Torelli wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The recent post about running coot on a powermac G5 has me a little > confused because I thought the only option for stereo on a Mac was to use a > Zalman monitor for passive stereo. I'm clearly missing something. Is it > true that active stereo with 120 Hz LCD monitors is not possible with a Mac? > I'm considering taking the plunge to switch over to Mac entirely, but one > source of hesitation is that I prefer active stereo and would like to move to > LCDs if possible. > Assuming I'm still correct that 120 Hz LCD active stereo is not > compatible with Macs, is it also true that this is unlikely to change in the > foreseeable future (i.e. Apple or Nvidia don't see enough financial benefit > to correct the problems ergo there is little driving force)? > > Thank you for the enlightenment, > -Andy Torelli > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mailing list for users of COOT Crystallographic Software > [mailto:COOT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Mark J van Raaij > Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 5:53 AM > To: COOT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Re: coot on powermac G5 running Tiger > > Hi Juergen, > > I have tried using fink before, but a precompiled binary would be easier... > I think Snow Leopard is incompatible with the G5 (and with ppc in general). > Leopard would work, I might try this if I can get an installation disk and > nobody has a binary compiled for 10.4 (Bill Scotts page does not have it > anymore for new versions of coot). > There are some rumours that Leopard broke the stereo, but also that the > latest updates fix it again. > > Mark > > > Mark J van Raaij > Laboratorio M-4 > Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas > Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC > c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco > E-28049 Madrid, Spain > tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 > http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular/mvraaij > > > > > On 2 Jul 2011, at 16:25, Bosch, Juergen wrote: > >> Hi Mark, >> >> have you ever tried using fink ? You don't need to do much to compile it >> yourself with the help of fink. >> Here's the link to fink (or better to Bill Scott's fink it yourself page) >> http://sage.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/Getting_your_fink_installation_to_use_packages_that_I_have_pre-compiled >> >> You will need Apple's Xcode, which you can get after registration for free. >> Once you have installed fink you really only type fink install [name of >> program you want], hit a couple of times y (yes) or whatever default value >> is requested. >> You have to do the usual edits in your .bashrc or .cshrc file to point X11 >> to your fink binary. >> You also have the option to download precompiled binaries, but not sure if >> Bill keeps still 10.4 - you might want to upgrade to Snow Leopard. >> >> Jürgen >> >> On Jul 2, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Mark J van Raaij wrote: >> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> My second computer in the office is a Powermac G5 with MaxOSX 10.4 equipped >>> with a stereo-capable CRT and Nuvision emitter/glasses. I would like to >>> install coot on this, pref. prebuilt because I am hopeless at compiling... >>> The most recent build I could find is 0.5.2 ueno on Bill Scotts website - >>> anyone know of a more recent version compiled and compatible with our >>> system. >>> would stereo work with a more recent version of coot? >>> >>> greetings, >>> >>> Mark >> >> ...................... >> Jürgen Bosch >> Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health >> Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology >> Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute >> 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 >> Baltimore, MD 21205 >> Phone: +1-410-614-4742 >> Lab: +1-410-614-4894 >> Fax: +1-410-955-3655 >> http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/ >> >> >>
