[Chimera-users] Problem with multiple monitors and NVidia 3D Vision - any suggestions ?
Steven Ludtke
sludtke at bcm.edu
Wed Jul 6 05:52:17 PDT 2011
Thanks for the suggestion Greg. Unfortunately, still no-go. I've tried every combination of ordering,
device assignment, etc. Changing the ordering of the devices DOES change that glxinfo now reports the
Quadro card as the renderer instead of the Tesla, but still doesn't list any available stereo visuals,
unless I completely disable the second display. Unless I'm willing to kill everything I'm running and
restart the X-server every time I want to use stereo, I'm stuck :^(
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Steven Ludtke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Co-Director National Center For Macromolecular Imaging
Dept of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol.
Baylor College of Medicine
sludtke at bcm.edu
stevel at alumni.caltech.edu
On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Greg Couch wrote:
> Looking at the NVIDIA driver's release notes it says for Xinerama: "...
> the X.Org X server bases the visuals of the logical Xinerama X screen on
> the visuals of physical X screen 0." So if you physically switched your
> display connections, so the stereo capable monitor is first, it might
> work. A low level way to see if stereo visuals are available is to use
> the glxinfo program and look for y's in the st/ro column -- that's the
> same information chimera uses to see if stereo is available.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Greg
>
> On 07/05/2011 12:43 PM, Steven Ludtke wrote:
>> Hi. I just set up a 3-D vision compatible stereo monitor as a second display on my desktop. I have a Quadro 4000
>> video card and am running 64 bit linux (Ubuntu 11.04) with the latest 270.41.06 Nvidia driver. If I only have
>> one monitor (the stereo capable one) attached to the machine, I can get stereo working (looks very nice), but
>> if I have the second non-stereo capable monitor connected at the same time, it will not initialize the stereo display mode
>> (on either display). I have it configured using Xinerama, so the 2 displays are on separate X-servers. Even
>> when I disable Xinerama, and the second display is running on a completely independent Screen, it still won't
>> go into stereo mode. Here are the relevant lines from the Xorg log file:
>>
>> [ 9016.284] (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
>> [ 9016.284] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
>> [ 9016.284] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
>> [ 9016.284] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
>> [ 9016.285] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinView" "0"
>> [ 9016.285] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
>> [ 9016.285] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-2"
>> [ 9018.424] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Display (DELL3007WFPHC (DFP-0)) does not support NVIDIA 3D
>> [ 9018.424] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Vision stereo.
>> [ 9018.466] (**) NVIDIA(1): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
>> [ 9018.466] (==) NVIDIA(1): RGB weight 888
>> [ 9018.466] (==) NVIDIA(1): Default visual is TrueColor
>> [ 9018.466] (==) NVIDIA(1): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
>> [ 9018.467] (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "Stereo" "10"
>> [ 9018.467] (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "TwinView" "0"
>> [ 9018.467] (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "MetaModes" "1920x1080_120 +0+0"
>> [ 9018.467] (**) NVIDIA(1): USB IR emitter stereo requested
>> [ 9019.116] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-1): Display (Acer HN274H (DFP-0)) supports NVIDIA 3D Vision
>> [ 9019.116] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-1): stereo.
>> [ 9019.117] (II) NVIDIA(1): NVIDIA GPU Quadro 4000 (GF100GL) at PCI:2:0:0 (GPU-1)
>> [ 9019.117] (--) NVIDIA(1): Memory: 2097152 kBytes
>> [ 9019.117] (--) NVIDIA(1): VideoBIOS: 70.00.37.00.03
>> [ 9021.570] (II) NVIDIA(1): USB emitter - Copyright (c) 2009 NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA
>> [ 9021.570] (II) NVIDIA(1): stereo controller
>> [ 9021.598] (II) NVIDIA(1): Setting mode "1920x1080_120+0+0"
>>
>> So, the logfile seems to indicate that it's initialized correctly, but when chimera tries to open a Stereo window,
>> it raises an error :^(
>>
>> Here are the relevant xorg.conf sections:
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>> Identifier "Layout0"
>> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
>> Screen 1 "Screen1" 2560 0
>> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>> Option "Xinerama" "1"
>> Option "XineramaStereoFlipping" "0"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "Device0"
>> Driver "nvidia"
>> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
>> BoardName "Tesla C2070"
>> BusID "PCI:131:0:0"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "Device1"
>> Driver "nvidia"
>> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
>> BoardName "Quadro 4000"
>> BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Screen0"
>> Device "Device0"
>> Monitor "Monitor0"
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-2"
>> Option "TwinView" "0"
>> Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 24
>> EndSubSection
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> # Removed Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
>> Identifier "Screen1"
>> Device "Device1"
>> Monitor "Monitor1"
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> Option "TwinView" "0"
>> Option "metamodes" "1920x1080_120 +0+0"
>> Option "Stereo" "10"
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 24
>> EndSubSection
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Extensions"
>> Option "Composite" "Disable"
>> EndSection
>>
>>
>> Anyone else have a Stereo configuration with dual monitors working ?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Steven Ludtke, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor
>> Co-Director National Center For Macromolecular Imaging
>> Dept of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol.
>> Baylor College of Medicine
>> sludtke at bcm.edu
>> stevel at alumni.caltech.edu
>>
>>
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