Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Shawn Holland <sholland@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

-- 
Regards,

Shawn Holland