It looks like nVidia may have finally answered our pleas for stereo under Linux : )
Forwarded from Peter Wolanin (with permission): -- In case you're interested, I was able to get quad-buffered stereo 3D graphics with pymol on a linux (Redhat 7.3) system after a couple weeks of false starts. The system is a Dell Precision with an nVidia GeForce2 card. After getting the very latest nVidia drivers installed, and installing some *very* reasonably priced LCD goggles from Eye3D I thought I was home free. However, it didn't work until I read the nVidia README in detail and discovered that you have to put in the XF86Config-4 file the driver option: Option "Stereo" "1" to enable hardware stereo. The emitter has to be manually switched (since it only has drivers for Windows), but otherwise everthing seems perfect. If only I'd had a few extra hints along the way, it would only have taken an hour to get working. -Peter -- FYI: the vendor for the Eye3D glasses he mentions is http://www.demensional.com/. I noticed they've linked VMD on their site -- perhaps we could convince them to include a reference to PyMOL as well? -- mailto:war...@sunesis.com Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D.
