From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun May 09 2010 - 14:12:14 CDT

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 20:56 +0200, Emiliano Ippoliti wrote:
> Dear Axel,

> thank you very much for your very fast reply.

it is either fast or never. ;-)

> I will immediately start installing a Linux distribution on that PC.
> Which distribution do you suggest me? Which one are you and the other

the release versions are compiled on red hat enterprise linux 5.x
these days. any clone of that (e.g. centos) will work just as well.
i personally use a recent fedora installation for development, but
that is due to other projects requiring very up-to-date software
and i have become too lazy to built it all by myself, and RHEL
and Centos v5 are a bit antiquated (and RHEL 6 is not yet there).

in both cases, you can have the proper and matching nvidia
drivers installed and kept up-to-date and in sync with
including the rpmfusion.org repository, which i strongly
recommend over installing nvidia drivers manually. many,
many people make a mess when they do this.

to enable the 3d vision gear you need to set some option in the
/etc/x11/xorg.conf file (it is stereo mode 10, IIRC). i suggest
you check the readme file. mine is in:

/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-195.36.15/README.txt

> developers more familiar with?

cheers,
   axel.

>
> Best,
> Emiliano
>
>
> P.S. I have just tried with the "Scanline interleaved" and all the
> other possible choices in the Stereo submenu of VMD but unfortunately
> the emitter does not turn on...

there are some notes about no hotplug support of the usb
emitter, but that could also be just for linux.

> On 9 May 2010, at 6:58 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
>
> > dear emiliano,
> >
> > > Is this the problem with my hardware? Or do you think that the
> > > problem is elsewhere?
> >
> > i cannot comment on windows. for linux there is special driver
> > setting required.
> > since you were able to run the demo, i would assume that this is
> > enabled for you.
> > i have seen the 3dvision gear being used successfully on a giant
> > samsung stereo
> > with VMD in windowed mode on a machine running red hat linux 5.x.
> >
> > > Is there a way to run VMD in full screen mode?
> >
> > yes. i fixed a bug related to it not so long ago. but it is quite a
> > hack and thus an
> > inofficial feature to be implemented properly at a later time. it
> > only works on X windows
> > (i have it running on fedora linux 12).
> >
> > > In case is not, are the VMD developers planning to insert a full
> > > screen mode in the near future?
> >
> > i cannot talk for john, but since i don't know of any VMD developer
> > that uses
> > windows at his or her primary development platform, i would expect
> > that any
> > improvements will first show up on unix-like systems using X
> > windows.
> >
> > > Do you know some way to overcome the problem?
> >
> > i would install linux, but that is mainly because i am very familiar
> > with it
> > and know how to deal with its quirks and issues and in turn have for
> > the
> > most part forgotten what i knew about windows 10 years ago when i
> > was last using it regularly.
> >
> > > In case the only possibility is the replacement of the emitter and
> > > glasses (I have to replace both of them?), which ones are
> > > compatible with VMD?
> >
> > as i wrote before, your gear should work.
> > i have seen it. have you tried scan-line interleaving?
> >
> > cheers,
> > axel.
> >
> > > Thank you in advance for any reply.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Emiliano
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com
> > http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/
> >
> > Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> > Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
> >
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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com
http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.