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From: Jacob Story (jstory_at_nsc-nvidia.com)
Date: Fri Jul 08 2011 - 13:35:44 CDT

I am going to have to retract that statement, you HAVE to use one of the listed cards on Linux for it to all work correctly. The system I had with tested was running windows, not Linux I apologize for the false information.

-Jacob S.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Vlad Cojocaru
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 10:26 AM
To: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: vmd-l: Quadro FX1800 , Stereo and VMD

Thanks John,

I was aware of this list .. However, I was hoping that maybe somebody
did get it to work with Linux ...
Well, it looks like I need to go for the expensive ones if I want 3D on
this workstation

Vlad

On 07/08/2011 05:41 PM, John Stone wrote:
> Vlad,
> Here's the web page where NVIDIA lists the Quadro GPUs that
> are supporting quad-buffered stereo on Linux:
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_pro_graphics_boards_linux.html
> The Quadro 1800 is not listed on the Linux page, so I doubt it is supported.
>
> If you were running Windows, apparently the Quadro FX 1800 is supported
> on the Windows platform using the USB-based emitter:
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_pro_graphics_boards.html
>
> I don't fully understand why there are Quadro boards that aren't
> supported for stereo on Linux, as I would have expected that the
> driver code for the USB emitters should be easy to support, but there
> must be some catch that makes this problematic. You'll not that on the
> list of USB-based Quadro boards under Windows that NVIDIA warns of
> "occasional flickering of the glasses may occur", which probably
> indicates USB latencies can cause problems there.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:25:33PM +0200, Vlad Cojocaru wrote:
>> Dear VMD users,
>>
>> I am looking into buying a workstation and I would like to add 3D
>> visualization support for VMD and other molecular visualizers using the
>> NVIDIA 3D Vision kit.
>>
>> Currently, I have one workstation with Quadro FX3800 and the setup works
>> fine for me both with single and dual monitors (Samsung 120 Hz).
>>
>> I was wondering however if Quadro FX1800 would also work ?
>> I know it support only a single monitor but I found conflicting reports
>> on whether it works with 3D in linux or not..
>>
>> Thanks for sharing your experience
>> Vlad
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Vlad Cojocaru
>> Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
>> Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology
>> Roentgenstrasse 20
>> 48149 Muenster, Germany
>> tel: +49-251-70365-324
>> fax: +49-251-70365-399
>> email: vlad.cojocaru[at]mpi-muenster.mpg.de
>> 

-- 
Dr. Vlad Cojocaru
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology
Roentgenstrasse 20
48149 Muenster, Germany
tel: +49-251-70365-324
fax: +49-251-70365-399
email: vlad.cojocaru[at]mpi-muenster.mpg.de