Re: [Update REQ 6885]: Geomview, module for 3D glasses

[Stuart Levy <slevy at geom.umn.edu>]

> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:34:44 +0200
> From: "Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meyer" <meyerw at ESCHER.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
> To: software@geom.umn.edu, meyerw at ESCHER.UNI-MUENSTER.DE
> Subject: Geomview, module for 3D glasses
> 
> Are there any plans to write a module  for GEOMVIEW under Linux for the
> ASUS AGP-3800 graphics card to support the ASUS VR 3D  Glasses
> VR-100? They would be great to view stereoskopic images.
> Wolfgang Meyer

Well -- little work is being done on geomview now, alas.  I've been
struggling even to get it to run usefully under Linux with recent
compilers -- egcs 1.0 generates bad code from something we do with
variable-length arg lists.

However, if that obstacle can be evaded, I would like to get it to 
do quad-buffered stereo.  It'd be very nice to make it work on
some nice Linux hardware.  Do you know whether there's any support
for stereo in the NVidia X server, and if so, how it works -- e.g. does
the server offer stereo-capable X visuals?  I don't yet have any TNT-based
card, so I can't check.

   Stuart Levy, slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu