[Chimera-users] Problem with multiple monitors and NVidia 3D Vision - any suggestions ?
Greg Couch
gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu
Thu Jul 7 16:27:49 PDT 2011
So next step would be to file a bug with NVIDIA so it can fixed in a
newer driver. See http://www.nvidia.com/page/support.html, for the
Linux support forums and the bug report link.
-- Greg
On 07/06/2011 05:52 AM, Steven Ludtke wrote:
> 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 :^(
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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