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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 19:49:00 CST

Dear Boaz,
  Can you tell me whether or not VMD gives you some warning/info
messages regarding stereoscopic rendering when it first starts up?
You should get an info message that says that stereo either is,
or is not available when the program first starts. My suspicion
is that your XiG driver is NOT providing stereo in the display mode
that you're currently running with, and so VMD is falling back to
displaying the images in a top/bottom fashion. You'll need to consult
your XiG docs to determine what video modes support stereoscopic
rendering. I have yet to see a working XFree86 video driver with
stereo support on Linux, so if you get it working, you'll be the
first person I know that has it working. I know that the XiG guys
have been working on it, but since we don't have their software,
I'm unaware of their current progress.

Let us know about the startup messages, and we'll proceed from there.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:35:50PM +0200, Boaz Shaanan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running vmd-1.7.1 under linux rh 7.2. The graphics hardware
> consists of Oxygen gvx1 and Nuvision emiiter + glasses (equivalent to
> Stereographics/Crystaleyes hardware). I am also using the linux driver
> developped by XiG (summit 2.0). When I ask for stereo rendering (and
> press Crystaleyes) I get two images one above the other (as if it was
> side-by-side view rotated by 90 degrees) instead of the expected two
> supreimposed images. Has anygody else experienced this with the Oxygen
> card ? What is the solution ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Boaz
>
>
> Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D.
> Associate Prof.
> Dept. of Life Sciences
> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
> Beer-Sheva 84105
> Israel
>
> E-mail:bshaanan_at_bgumail.bgu.ac.il
> Phone:972-8-647-2220
> Fax: 972-8-647-2992/646-1710
>
> 

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