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I want to use hardware stereo. What are the requirements?

April 26, 2017hardware requirements Stereo

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I want to use hardware stereo. What are the requirements?

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Maestro supports both quad-buffered stereo and horizontally interlaced stereo. To use quad-buffered stereo, your monitor must have a refresh rate of at least 100 Hz. Some newer LCD displays have a refresh rate of 120 Hz, but most older LCD displays do not support a high enough refresh rate. In addition, you must have a graphics card that supports quad-buffered OpenGL stereo, and have the driver for that card installed. There is a variety of hardware available for hardware stereo apart from traditional monitors. To use horizontally interlaced stereo, you must have a monitor that supports this feature. Horizontally interlaced stereo has lower resolution than quad-buffered stereo, and can make text hard to read. You should run your graphics card at the same resolution as the monitor to ensure that the horizontal interlacing works correctly. To enable stereo on Linux, you must edit the configuration file in /etc/X11 (xorg.conf, XF86Config-4, or XF86Config) to add the relevant options for s