Digital DVI only monitor and VGA shutter glasses?
I have an old pair (actually, several :D ) of Revelator shutter glasses that I have been using with my CRT monitor for the past several years. That monitor recently died and so I upgraded to a nice digital flat panel LCD and am using the digital DVI connection on my Ti4200 card. Problem is, without any monitor connected to the VGA output the stereo driver doesn't think a monitor is installed and doesn't seem to be firing the necessary pin on that jack. I've tried all of the different glasses settings (have the showall feature enabled) to no avail. Is there a way to trick or force the driver into using that pin or is it possibly firing some pin on the DVI jack that a breakout box could be built to access?
I have an old pair (actually, several :D ) of Revelator shutter glasses that I have been using with my CRT monitor for the past several years. That monitor recently died and so I upgraded to a nice digital flat panel LCD and am using the digital DVI connection on my Ti4200 card. Problem is, without any monitor connected to the VGA output the stereo driver doesn't think a monitor is installed and doesn't seem to be firing the necessary pin on that jack. I've tried all of the different glasses settings (have the showall feature enabled) to no avail. Is there a way to trick or force the driver into using that pin or is it possibly firing some pin on the DVI jack that a breakout box could be built to access?

#1
Posted 08/26/2005 04:01 AM   
How do you intend to get 3D working with LCD?

Setting the DVI port to "primary" should work... atleast it did for me with a Ti4600 and a 6800GT.

You could get a vga to DVI connector and just use the VGA port. There is really not much difference in image quality, atleast nothing that you can pickup without concentrating hard.
How do you intend to get 3D working with LCD?



Setting the DVI port to "primary" should work... atleast it did for me with a Ti4600 and a 6800GT.



You could get a vga to DVI connector and just use the VGA port. There is really not much difference in image quality, atleast nothing that you can pickup without concentrating hard.

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#2
Posted 08/26/2005 11:03 AM   
[quote name='RAGEdemon' date='Aug 26 2005, 06:03 AM']How do you intend to get 3D working with LCD?[/quote]The new LCD monitor is a Dell 2405PFW which should be able to switch fast enough to support 60 or possibly even 75hz w/o too much blurring.

[quote]Setting the DVI port to "primary" should work... atleast it did for me with a Ti4600 and a 6800GT.[/quote]That didn't work for me. In fact, right now the LCD is the only monitor, so it can't be anything but the primary monitor. (The checkbox to select anything else is grayed out.)

[quote]You could get a vga to DVI connector and just use the VGA port. There is really not much difference in image quality, atleast nothing that you can pickup without concentrating hard.[/quote]Yeah, I started with a regular hi-quality analog RGB cable, but it displays terrible interference artifacts whenever a herringbone pattern is displayed on screen. (For instance, when X Windows boots up.) so I switched to DVI. And there is a bit of ghosting w/ text when using an analog cable. The DVI digital is just too good to not use it.

Anyway, I just upgraded to a 7800 GT so now the whole testing process has to begin again so I'll have to come back to this topic after I get more data.
[quote name='RAGEdemon' date='Aug 26 2005, 06:03 AM']How do you intend to get 3D working with LCD?The new LCD monitor is a Dell 2405PFW which should be able to switch fast enough to support 60 or possibly even 75hz w/o too much blurring.



Setting the DVI port to "primary" should work... atleast it did for me with a Ti4600 and a 6800GT.
That didn't work for me. In fact, right now the LCD is the only monitor, so it can't be anything but the primary monitor. (The checkbox to select anything else is grayed out.)



You could get a vga to DVI connector and just use the VGA port. There is really not much difference in image quality, atleast nothing that you can pickup without concentrating hard.
Yeah, I started with a regular hi-quality analog RGB cable, but it displays terrible interference artifacts whenever a herringbone pattern is displayed on screen. (For instance, when X Windows boots up.) so I switched to DVI. And there is a bit of ghosting w/ text when using an analog cable. The DVI digital is just too good to not use it.



Anyway, I just upgraded to a 7800 GT so now the whole testing process has to begin again so I'll have to come back to this topic after I get more data.

#3
Posted 09/03/2005 05:58 AM   
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