finally got stereo in coot working on the ppc with Tiger. it was necessary to download X11 1.1.3 (and XCode 2.5). hope I did not bore too many people with my uselessness at installing software.
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 5 Jul 2011, at 17:48, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: > Hi Mark, > > stereo worked for me with Tiger using Apple's X11, at least on an Intel Mac > Pro with a Nvidia Quadro card (and works still with Snow Leopard). It is > important to connect the stereo-capable CRT to the first DVI socket of the > graphics card (the one closer to the case edge - you may have to reconnect > the monitor(s)), and choose a resolution for the CRT that permits a 120 Hz > vertical refresh rate. For 1280x960 pixels, a horizontal refresh rate of ~130 > kHz is needed for the CRT monitor, which is usually the limiting parameter. > > Good luck, > > Dirk. > > Am 05.07.11 17:01, schrieb Mark J van Raaij: >> Hi Charles, >> >> I had tried that one, but it didn't run properly - so I just assumed it was >> not really Tiger compatible. >> But your message got me thinking again, and I then remembered that XCode >> needs to be installed. When I installed XCode 2.5 (the latest version >> compatible with Tiger), and then Coot, it runs. >> >> What doesn't work is the stereo in Coot - if someone knows how to get this >> working on a ppc under Tiger, please let me know. >> >> Mark >> >> PS for those who forgot like me, to download XCode 2.5 one needs to sign up >> for free as an Apple developer. >> >> >> 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 4 Jul 2011, at 11:05, Charles Ballard wrote: >> >>> we have 0.6.1 on the ccp4 site, it is a universal binary built on a 10.4 >>> machine >>> >>> Charles >>> >>> On 2 Jul 2011, at 12:28, 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 >>> -- >>> Scanned by iCritical. > > -- > > ******************************************************* > Dirk Kostrewa > Gene Center Munich, A5.07 > Department of Biochemistry > Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München > Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 > D-81377 Munich > Germany > Phone: +49-89-2180-76845 > Fax: +49-89-2180-76999 > E-mail: kostr...@genzentrum.lmu.de > WWW: www.genzentrum.lmu.de > ******************************************************* >