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Subject: SUMMARY: stereo emitter sync issues (linux/quadro 4500/nuvision 60GX)
From: Peter Adrian Meyer pam52 {- at -} CORNELL {- dot -} EDU
Date: 2007-09-17
Should anyone run into this in the future, this appears to be symptomatic
of having a graphics card with a bad emitter port.

Thanks again to everybody who had suggestions for me,

Pete

> Hopefully somebody's run into this one previously, and can give me some
> hints...
>
> I've almost gotten a new stereo system setup (x64 running kubuntu feisty)
> using a PNY nvidia quadro 4500 graphics card and nuvision 60GX emitter
> (and a DEC CRT monitor...) with the nvidia (not nv) xorg driver.
>
> Almost in the sense that Xorg.0.log reports stereo as functional (stereo 3
> in xorg.conf), and coot and pymol both act like they've got hardware
> stereo (stdout in the respective terminal, and display window shows two
> slightly offset, overlapping images): but the emitter doesn't power on (no
> LED illumination, and also no power switch...although I have hopefully
> flipped the "reverse stereo" switch on the back a few times). The nvidia
> kernel module is loaded, and glxinfo shows nvidia in the vendor string.
> The ati fglrx driver required a separate option for stereo sync; but from
> the documentation it doesn't appear that the nvidia driver does.
>
> I've tested the emitter on another system, and it works fine there. I've
> also tried the drivers from the ubuntu repositories and directly from
> nvidia (both behave the same way).
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for further troubleshooting? Or, even
> better, am I missing something obvious?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete
>
>
> Pete Meyer
> Fu Lab
> BMCB grad student
> Cornell University
>


Pete Meyer
Fu Lab
BMCB grad student
Cornell University

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