Ball Dawg!

Back in December 2009 NVidia finally released a graphics driver for Linux that supported Stereo/3d graphics on a few LCD monitors. Since then we have purchased a few different brands of monitors but have decided to standardize on the NVidia supported Alienware AW2310. The Monitor appears very well built and has a fantastic image. When the driver was initially released there was some confusion on how to get the Stereo working on Linux under CentOS or RHEL 5. Since it’s quite simple, I thought I’d share our configuration. Read more…

So you want to move your Linux workstations to RHEL5 but still use Insight II? If you have tried (and I know you have), you know that because of the jump in the version of GLIBC to version 2.5, Insight II won’t run. As much as we wish Accelrys would go and compile it against RHEL5, that won’t happen either. So, what does it take to get it to run? RHEL4… No, really. But we are going to be cute about it. Since all Insight needs is a few libraries to run, its just a matter of putting it in a place where it can get to them. My solution to this was making a small chroot environment in which to start up Insight in. Read more…