[ale] ATI closed source graphics drivers

[Dow Hurst]

Thanks everyone for the advice!  I am completely impressed with the 
Nvidia driver.  We have a professor that will be purchasing a Dell 
Precision workstation soon and wanted advice on using the stereographics 
Crystal Eyes product.  After investigating I found this out:

www.stereographics.com is the web link
The Crystals Eyes package does require a Vertical Refresh rate on a CRT 
monitor to be at or above 100Hz!
It won't work with LCD monitors due to the above criteria
A good CRT is getting harder to find due to all the LCD popularity.

Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB= $699.99
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 514 HM204DT= $629.42

Are both capable of the 100Hz Vertical refresh at 1600x1200.  I think 
the Iiyama is better based on the specs.

The Nvidia cards and driver support using the stereo devices with the 
three pin DIN port to sync the glasses to the monitor's oscillating 
output of two images.  It is wireless as well.  You can't use it with 
dual screens though since each program that is coded to support the 
product hasn't been designed to handle two monitors.  I'm sure it could 
be done, but the tech guys at stereographics said the glasses would work 
for the monitor the program was displayed on but the other monitor would 
look weird since the programs displayed there would not be producing the 
stereo output.  I'd love to get to experiment but I think only one 
monitor will get purchased at this point.

None of the above info is about ATI but I appreciated what everyone 
posted and thought I'd pass on this nugget about the stereo product.  It 
will be used to look at structures from protein crystallization 
processes on the computer inside of x-ray crystallographic modelling 
programs.  She also will use stereo vision to help see ligands being 
docked inside the active site of the same proteins she has 
crystallized.  It is too expensive to own the equipment to collect the 
spectra so national labs contract with researchers such as herself to do 
the x-ray tests.  Then she takes the data and works on her systems to 
interpret, visuallize, and work with the data.

Thanks,
Dow


Dow Hurst wrote:

> Does the ATI driver work as well as the Nvidia one?  I don't have an 
> ATI based machine to try on.  It would sure make choosing a laptop 
> easier for me or recommending one for others.  I just need to be able 
> to recommend hardware accelerated OpenGL based performance on a laptop 
> but don't want a 10lb monster.
> Thanks,
> Dow
>
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