[PyMOL] NVidia Linux Stereo Drivers

[DeLano, W. <wa...@su...>]

It looks like nVidia may have finally answered our pleas for stereo =
under Linux : )=20

Forwarded from Peter Wolanin (with permission):

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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

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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? =20

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Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D.