From: Cesar Avila (cavila_at_fbqf.unt.edu.ar)
Date: Sun Nov 26 2006 - 16:28:10 CST

I thought this shutter glasses worked only under Windows (mainly because
of the drivers). I read a few years ago there was a workaround only for
Quadro series. Could you please give more details about your hardware and
the tweaks you had to apply under linux?
Best regards
Cesar

> Dear Cesar,
>
> in october I bought some eDimensional shutter-glasses at eBay (Price 50
> Euro). But they didn't worked with my ATI Radeon.
> Then I bought for 50 Euro a NVIDIA Quadro GLX at eBay too.
> Now, it works very well. You have to install the drivers and change your
> glxinfo at linux and voila - fine 3D-graphic at VMD, pymol und other
> applications.
>
> But, if you have a nvidia card you can buy the cheaper version for 18 Euro
> (wired). E.g. look at this page http://www.razor3d.de/3d_pc.asp.
>
> kind regards
>
> Robert
>
> Robert Kretschmer
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cesar Avila" <cavila_at_fbqf.unt.edu.ar>
> To: <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 7:14 PM
> Subject: vmd-l: Shutter glasses on VMD
>
>
>> Dear all,
>> Has anyone tried the cheap shutter glasses available on the market (like
>> the ones from eDimensional or 3DMultimediaSystems) with VMD lately? I
>> found a post on 2003 mentioning there were still some problems with
>> drivers. Several years later does this problem still exist?
>> Regards
>> Cesar Avila
>>
>>
>>
>
>