Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Alvaro Kuolas <kuolas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Shawn Holland wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 1:34 am, Carl Hartung wrote:
>   
>> On Monday 22 May 2006 23:58, Carl Hartung wrote:
>>     
>>> What's the model number of the card you bought?
>>>       
>> Addendum concerning the 'sharp' but off-center older card:
>>
>> I searched Google for "GeForce2 TI Pro 64" to see if I could find some
>> engineering documentation and located these similar/comparably named OEM
>> cards:
>>
>> The MSI GeForce2 Ti Pro-VT(G) graphic card uses the nVidia GeForce2 Ti
>> chipset. It includes 64 DDR memory. It is capable of delivering 1 billion
>> pixels/sec. The card features TV-out and Video in. It connects through the
>> 4xAGP port.
>>
>> ASUS GeForce 2 Ti 200, (64 MB) AGP Graphic Card
>> Powered by the NVIDIA GeForce 2 Ti 200 graphics processing unit (GPU), the
>> ASUS AGP video card delivers not only cutting-edge graphics performance but
>> also image fidelity regardless of the CPU (central processing unit) your
>> system is using. Experience high image quality for games and video with
>> this excellent video card.
>>
>> According to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_2
>>
>> The possible NVidia brand model numbers are:
>>     
>>> (Performance ranking, slowest to fastest) [1]
>>>
>>>     * GeForce2 MX100 [2]
>>>     * GeForce2 Go
>>>     * GeForce2 MX200
>>>     * GeForce2 MX
>>>     * GeForce2 MX400
>>>     * GeForce2 GTS
>>>     * GeForce2 GTS (64 MiB) [3]
>>>     * GeForce2 Pro
>>>     * GeForce2 Ti
>>>     * GeForce2 Ultra
>>>       
>> As you can see, there's a GeForce2 Pro and a GeForce2 Ti, but no "TI Pro".
>> I'm not having much luck nailing down a card with the exact name you
>> supplied and the distinction could be important. Is the older card an
>> NVidia brand or other? I'd like to look up the engineering data on it, if
>> possible.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Carl
>>     
>
> I'm looking at the card right now and its a G2TiVX Pro-VT made by MSI. 
>
> http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/vga/vga/pro_vga_detail.php?UID=51
>
> The card was prety much top of the line when I bought it and still can perform 
> quite exceptionally. It has S-Video out / in and composite out. Which is why 
> I didn't want to just put it asside. But from all the emails / documentation 
> I've read its been quite difficult to get the legacy nvidia drivers installed 
> under suse 10.0. The nv SuSE drivers worked but obviously no GL and some 
> think it may be the source of my off center image problem because it runs 
> fine under any tty and durring POST just not in X. Again I was able to center 
> the picutre just fine with NVTV in X. But this talks directly to the card and 
> can cause some unwanted problems. And of course no GL. 
>
> The new one I bought was a BFG Gforce MX 4000 128meg 2/4/8x agp.
> And its clearly not a good picture. Its quite distorted. Fuzzy was the easiest 
> thing to say about the picture. I see a bunch of noise in the picture. The 
> picture quality of the Ti was much better. Just like normal TV. There was no 
> noise in the picture at all. This one looks like its being put through a 
> cable thats broken. Or sitting on a bunch of electrical wires :)
>
> There are a few other things to consider as well. I tried to find out the 
> voltage for the card and it seems to, from what I read, support a 1.5v. The 
> motherboard I have is an asrock k8upgrade board which puts out only 1.5v. So 
> I thought that the voltage may be whats messing it up. But I think its not.
>
> You seem quite intent on fixing my problems. I'll have to send you a cookie or 
> a beer if/when I finally get a simple media computer up and running.
>
> I'm gonna read the mobo manual for voltage specs and find out more about the 
> card. Do some more reading and try another new cable and maybe even a 
> different TV to see what the problem is. Worse comes to worse. I'll just 
> bring this card back and get a fx5200 and try that. I just got this mx4000 
> because I read it was better then the fx5200 and I just happen to find it for 
> the same price.
>
>   
You (and everyone) should look at this:

ATI Knowledge Base

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=18872

737-18872: ATI AGP Graphics Cards - AGP Compliance Details


It's really good explaining how AGP works.