... and of course, when I plugged in the Stereographics emitter, I used
also the Stereographics shutter glasses, just to make that point clear ...
Am 08.07.11 12:37, schrieb Dirk Kostrewa:
Hi Andrew,
active (or quad-buffered, sequential, hardware) stereo 3D is possible
on a MacPro, at least with a Nvidia Quadro card with a 3-pin Mini-DIN
socket, Stereographics/realD or NuVision shutter glasses and emitter,
and a suitable CRT monitor. But those are hard to find, nowadays
(i.e., used monitors on eBay and alike).
I never heard whether this also works with a stereo TFT monitor and
Nvidia glasses and emitter. But a colleague of mine next door runs
this under Linux. So, I just plugged in the Nvidia emitter to the USB
and 3-pin-Mini-DIN sockets on my MacPro, and connected a Samsung 3D
stereo-capable monitor. I could set the TFT monitor to 120 Hz, and
Chimera switches to sequential stereo, but, unfortunately, the Nvidia
emitter does not work together with the Mac (it blinks red instead of
a steady green light). Next test was to replace the Nvidia emitter
with my Stereographics emitter. This time, I do see something that
reminds me of stereo, but with heavy ghosting and blending of
different depths through the molecule - so, in short, it's not usable.
Hope, that helps.
Best regards,
Dirk.
Am 07.07.11 21:48, schrieb Andrew T. Torelli:
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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark J van Raaij
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 5:53 AM
To: [email protected]
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
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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/
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Department of Biochemistry
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