[Chimera-users] How to setup Nvidia 3D Vision on Ubuntu

[Wei Zhang]

Hi Greg,

Thanks so much for the tips.
Now I am more confident of having a functional machine again!

I will keep you and Tom updated.

Cheers and have a good weekend!

Wei


On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 3:22 PM Greg Pintilie <gregdp at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Wei, Tom,
>
> I had the Nvidia 3D vision system working on Ubuntu 14/16, the following
> instructions were very helpful:
>
> http://eigenvaluables.blogspot.ca/2011/10/installing-nvidia-3d-vision-on-ubuntu.html
>
> I am actually not sure if it was on 14 or 16, I set it up years ago so
> it’s a bit of a blur, but it worked well for many years. Just this year I
> tried to upgrade to 18 (to use ChimeraX, which doesn’t seem to work with
> 14/16?) but on this version I could not get it to work using the method
> above.
>
> I then installed Windows 10, and on this it works well with both Chimera
> and ChimeraX, but I had to use an older driver for the Quadro card, still
> downloadable from the Nvidia site, it’s version 392.58. With newer drivers
> it did not work. I haven’t tried going back to a similar older driver with
> Ubuntu 18/20, not sure if it’s possible, but maybe that could make it work.
>
> Let us know how it works for you, and if you manage to get it working with
> 18/20 especially. If you try 14/16 or Windows 10 and have problems let me
> know, I can try to dig up more details if needed. I suspect that since
> drivers have dropped the support it may be harder and harder to keep it
> going as Tom said.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2020, at 12:38 AM, Wei Zhang <zhangwei at umn.edu> wrote:
>
> Tom,
>
> Thank you for these suggestions. I will look into these options.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wei
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 8:58 PM Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wei,
>>
>>   I'd suggest using Ubuntu 20.04, the latest Ubuntu, the current Chimera
>> 1.14 or daily build will work fine on that.   I am not certain that Quadro
>> FX 4800 graphics drivers will be available for Ubuntu 20, probably they
>> will be, but you might want to look for that online before proceeding.
>> That graphics cards is very old, from 2008.
>>
>>   The other thing to know is that Nvidia discontinued support for Nvidia
>> 3D Vision stereo glasses in 2019
>>
>> https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4845
>>
>> meaning those glasses and emitter will no longer work using just the
>> current Nvidia graphics driver.  But they claim that there is a separate
>> driver for the USB emitter that allows it to work.
>>
>>
>> https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/nv3dvisionusb/390_41/nv3dvisionusb-driver/
>>
>> I have not tried it.  If you get it to work I'd be interested in hearing
>> about it since we have an old Nvidia 3D Vision system.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2020, at 6:41 PM, Wei Zhang <zhangwei at umn.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> Hope everything is well.
>>
>> One university's computer lab recently retired some workstations that
>> were used for 3D visualization before. I managed to get a
>> couple workstations with the 3D glasses and emitters. But I need to
>> reinstall the operating system on those machines.
>>
>> The graphic card of the workstation is Nvidia Quadro FX4800.
>> The emitter is NVIDIA P854.
>> The glasses are NVIDIA-P854 and ViewSonic-PGD250.
>>
>> I plan to install Ubuntu. I am wondering  which version of Ubuntu is
>> suitable for using UCSF Chimera. Do we need to install cuda to make it
>> work? Do we need to install an older version of Chimera?
>>
>> Sorry I just sent the message to you to follow the previous chain of
>> conversation. Shall I email the chimera-user in the future with such
>> questions?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Wei
>>
>>
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