Alexander, I thought FX3700 would work. Good to hear confirmation from you. It would be nice a Linux driver is available to allow USB based stereo sync. No, not any Quadro card with stereo output will work. The old FX1400 does not work. Even the relatively new FX3500 does not work. The nVidia website has a list of cards that support 3D Vision. That should be consulted before purchasing even though the list was created for Windows.
Regards, Yong <alexander.schif...@sanofi-aventis.com> 01/15/2010 11:04 AM To <wang_yon...@lilly.com> cc <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject RE: [ccp4bb] Stereo TFT Yong, We used a HP xw 6600 workstations, with NVIDA FX 3700, RedHat Linux 5.4, 64 Bit version. The driver was from nvidia, version 195.22 (it is a beta version) I was told that indeed in the US the cable is included but not in europe. The situation for Windows is completely different from linux. For Windows the stereo signal is transmitted to the emitter through the driver and the USB port. For Linux the stereo signal is created by the graphics card and directly transmitted through the 3-pin stereo cable to the emitter. Thats why you need the stereo output on the card, but I would asume that any quadro card with stereo output can be used with 3D Vision. Nvidia just seems to increase the price limit for cards with stereo output. Best regards, Alexander -----Original Message----- From: Yong Y Wang [mailto:wang_yon...@lilly.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 4:40 PM To: Schiffer, Alexander R&D/DE Cc: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo TFT Alexander, What graphics card were you using in the demo system? From my experience, it seems only the high end card (FX3700 and up) can do this (having the 3-pin stereo connector). This is different from the situation for Windows where a low end card like FX380 works fine. The 3-pin stereo cable is part of the 3D Vision kit in our purchase. Yong -------------------- Yong Wang, Ph.D. Macromolecular Crystallography Eli Lilly and Company, DC 0403 Lilly Corporate Center Indianapolis, IN 46285 Tel: (317) 655-9145 Fax: (317) 651-6333 E-mail: wang_y...@lilly.com alexander.schif...@sanofi-aventis.com Sent by: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> 01/15/2010 03:11 AM Please respond to alexander.schif...@sanofi-aventis.com To CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK cc Subject [ccp4bb] Stereo TFT Dear all, We had a demo of the ViewSonic® FuHzion? VX2265wm and Nvidia 3D Vision system yesterday. The stereo quality is equivalent/superior to our Stereographics/CRT setup. We have tested coot and pymol in the normal hardware stereo mode. There are several advantages besides space requirements and availability: integrated recharchable battery and you can work with a second non stereo TFT to expand the desktop as the glasses do not influence other TFTs (unlike Stereographics). On the ViewSonic TFT has a good image quality, however when looking at a plain coloured background a fine grid is visible. In my opinion it does not affect the normal crystallographic work and depending on you background settings you might not even notice it. As far as I understood the key requirements for linux are a quadro graphics card with 3-pin stereo connector and the VESA 3-pin stereo cable that is described in the manual from the Nvidia website but not included in the package in all countries. Best regards, Alexander Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards / Cordialement Dr. Alexander Schiffer Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH R&D CAS Structural Biology FFM Industriepark Hoechst Bldg. G877, Room 029 D-65926 Frankfurt am Main t: +49 69 305 24896 f: +49 69 305 80169 w:www.sanofi-aventis.de ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH · Sitz der Gesellschaft: Frankfurt am Main · Handelsregister: Frankfurt am Main, Abt. B Nr. 40661 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Hanspeter Spek - Geschäftsführer: Dr. Martin Siewert (Vorsitzender), Ulf Bialojahn, Dr. Matthias Braun, Peter Guenter, Prof. Dr. Dr. Werner Kramer, Dr. Klaus Menken, Dr. Heinz Riederer *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
