On Tuesday 23 May 2006 11:00, Shawn Holland wrote:
...I'm not looking for a massive gaming system. Just a simple media box that can play mame :) video / sound on my TV.
The manual for your original card suggests it uses a (Windows only, of course) "MSI Live VGA BIOS" Internet-based utility to keep the card's BIOS current. I don't see a separate flash utility or any downloadable BIOS images, so I'm sure that's the only way to update it. :-/ It would sure be nice to know the card is sporting the 'latest and greatest' BIOS. Also, have you experimented with the command line based 'nvidia-settings' utility? From the .txt user guide (available from the driver download page): " NVIDIA-SETTINGS USER GUIDE ... 1. Introduction The `nvidia-settings` utility is a tool for configuring the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. It operates by communicating with the NVIDIA X driver, querying and updating state as appropriate. This communication is done with the NV-CONTROL X extension. Values such as brightness and gamma, XVideo attributes, temperature, and OpenGL settings can be queried and configured via nvidia-settings. When nvidia-settings starts, it reads the current settings from its configuration file and sends those settings to the X server. Then, it displays a graphical user interface (GUI) interface for configuring the current settings. When nvidia-settings exits, it queries the current settings from the X server and saves them to the configuration file." I haven't had time to study everything in detail but I'd be very surprised if there weren't a (DC offset) adjustment available to center the 'TV Out' (S-video) display. The M$ counterpart utility provides both an x and y axis centering adjustment using up and down arrows like those in SaX2. Is my reading of the documentation correct that this card is designed to drive either a monitor /or/ a 'TV' but not both at the same time? Carl