Re: [PyMOL] Stereographics CrystalEyes problem

[Viktor H. <ho...@cs...>]

Carsten,

your guess sounds very likely to me. Unfortunately, we only have "ESGI" 
emitters so I cannot confirm it for sure (but I bet you're right).
Thanks a lot for the tip.

Cheers,
-Viktor


Schubert, Carsten wrote:
> just a wild guess, but in order to get stereo to work on my PC (under 
> W2K) with a Oxygen GVX card I had to use a "ENT" emitter from 
> Stereographics. As far as I recall the regular emitters used on the 
> SGI's, type "ESGI", did not work.
> 
> Hope it helps.
> 
> Cheers
>         Carsten
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Viktor Hornak [mailto:ho...@cs...]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 15:45
> To: pymol-users
> Subject: [PyMOL] Stereographics CrystalEyes problem
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I followed the discussion on 3D stereo support in PyMOL and saw that
> many people were able to get PyMOL in stereo with FireGL or Nvidia
> cards. Finally I got the chance to try it out myself with a new NVIDIA
> Quadro4 XGL 900. I am running PyMOL on RedHat 7.3 wiht the latest nvidia
> drivers (1.0-3123). There were no problems to get accelerated X up with
> blazingly fast PyMOL rendering. So next, I tried to get stereo working.
> I am using Stereographics emitter and CrystalEyes which I've been using
> with our SGIs (so that I know they are functional; in fact PyMOL works
> in stereo on our SGIs without a problem). I plugged the emmiter into the
> DIN on my Quadro4 card, put   Option "Stereo" "3"   into my
> XF86Config-4, restarted X and hoped that things will just work.
> According to XFree log file, X was really initiated in stereo mode. The
> emmiter light turned on when I started PyMOL. I switched to 'quad
> buffered stereo' and the molecule getss rendered in stereo but when I
> look at it with CrystalEyes glasses nothing changes. I still see double
> rendered image on the screen, which means that the emmiter does not
> synchronize glasses correctly (or at all).
> I tried to change some options in XF86Config-4 but nothing helped, so I
> was wondering if someone experienced the same problem. Do Stereographics
> emmiter and CrystalEyes glasses work with Quadro4 at all? Do I need to
> get a different emmiter or glasses? Any help appreciated...