Re: [ccp4bb]: dial box and crystal eyes for Linux?

[Bart Hazes <bhazes@ualberta.ca>]

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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Jason Yano wrote:

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> Hi all,
> 	As far as I  know there are no dials for Linux boxes. I also like
> the Nuvisions (which are much cheaper than the cystaleyes). There web site
> is http://es55314.easystreet.com/
>
> I think that the current price is about $300 for the emmitter and
> glasses. You will also need a good video card if you want to run
> stereo. So far the only one that works 100% is the ATI fire GL2. I have
> also heard rumors that new xig drivers for the oxygen GVX1 will be coming
> out within the next few weeks. Currently the card "works" in stereo, but
> the menus are invisible. I have also heard of people doing software tweaks
> on gforce2 or 3 cards, but I think that is for windows.

To my knowledge ALL graphics cards supported by Linux and X will work
although, obviously, some will work better than others. The real bottleneck is
however the horizontal refresh rate of the monitor. So I don't think you have
to go for the most expensive graphics cards, unless you also want to play
games.

The tweaks of the Geforce cards are mentioned on the PyMol website but they
use a completely different set of glasses as far as I understood. The good
part is that PyMol with those glasses can run stereo-in-a-window instead of
the above-below stereo NuVision gives you.

Bart

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