Yong,

We used a HP xw 6600 workstations, with NVIDA FX 3700, RedHat Linux 5.4, 64 Bit version.
The driver was from nvidia, version 195.22  (it is a beta version) 
I was told that indeed in the US the cable is included but not in europe.
The situation for Windows is completely different from linux. For Windows the stereo signal is transmitted to the emitter through the driver and the USB port. For Linux the stereo signal is created by the graphics card and directly transmitted through the 3-pin stereo cable to the emitter. Thats why you need the stereo output on the card, but I would asume that any quadro card with stereo output can be used with 3D Vision. Nvidia just seems to increase the price limit for cards with stereo output.

Best regards,

Alexander

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Alexander,

What graphics card were you using in the demo system?  From my experience, it seems only the high end card (FX3700 and up) can do this (having the 3-pin stereo connector).  This is different from the situation for Windows where a low end card like FX380 works fine.  The 3-pin stereo cable is part of the 3D Vision kit in our purchase.

Yong

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Dear all, 
We had a demo of the ViewSonic® FuHzion? VX2265wm and Nvidia 3D Vision 
system yesterday. 
The stereo quality is equivalent/superior to our Stereographics/CRT setup. 
We have tested coot and pymol in the normal hardware stereo mode.  There 
are several advantages besides space requirements and availability: 
integrated recharchable battery and you can work with a second non stereo 
TFT to expand the desktop as the glasses do not influence other TFTs 
(unlike Stereographics).
On the ViewSonic TFT has a good image quality, however when looking at a 
plain coloured background a fine grid is visible. In my opinion it does 
not affect the normal crystallographic work and depending on you 
background settings you might not even notice it.
As far as I understood the key requirements for linux are a quadro 
graphics card with 3-pin stereo connector and the VESA 3-pin stereo cable 
that is described in the manual from the Nvidia website but not included 
in the package in all countries.
Best regards, 
Alexander 

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