Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Shawn Holland <sholland@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 12:05 am, Carl Hartung wrote:
> Is the fuzzy image at least centered now? :-)
>

Well I havn't decided to install it in SuSE yet because I wanted to now figure 
out the fuzzy problem. But yes on POST its centered!

> Do you have a diagnostics / calibration image available to confirm the
> display settings?

The display is fuzzy even durring POST. Its not an OS / Driver issue.

>
> Do you have the right size and impedance cable?

Not knowing much about it I can't answer that. I did pay 30 bucks for it and 
its about 3 ft long and its svideo to av jack. With gold plated ends it says! 
Thats good right? Oxygen Free, Solid Copper Conductors, Multi-Shield 
Design .. as per the packaging.

>
> Have you tried swapping out for new or shorter cables and/or removing any
> splitters, extenders, etc.?

The cord is brand new as is the video card. There are not splitters / 
extenders. Its one straight cord from svideo to av.

Funny thing is the other card just had composate out and I was using a cheap 
$5 cable with a clear (but off center) image.

>
> Have you tried mild soapy water on the screen? :-)
>

There is dust on the screen :)


> > Good luck to anyone else trying to use a still usefull nv card that cost
> > over $200 at the time on SuSE.
>
> I once stretched out the useful life of a $300(?)US rev. 1 14" NEC
> MultiSync (EGA) monitor to 15 years. That still worked out to twenty bucks
> a year. How old is the earlier card? Did you have it working correctly
> under 10.0?... under 9.3?
>

Well its a GForce2 TI Pro 64mb. I bought it about 4-5 years ago maybe. At 50 
bucks a year I could have a whole family of gf4mx440's hooked up to all my 
tv's!

> > Can you tell I'm getting bitter?
>
> At least you're not "gonna cry"... I hope? :-)
>
> Carl

Me cry? Never.

-- 
Regards,

Shawn Holland