On Tuesday 23 May 2006 10:03 pm, Carl Hartung wrote:
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.
I'll assume your questions / statements were made for my MSI G2TiVX Pro-VT.
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 wasn't aware this existed.
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
I have never tried to use both at the same time. I use to just switch between the two. And this card use to work just fine with the nvidia drivers back in 9.2 I honestly believe the problem is in the nv / SuSE driver. If I could get the legacy driver to install it most likely would work. As for my 'fuzzy' image on the new mx 4000 it may just be the cable. I'm going to try it on a different tv with a different cable that is known to work. I'll let you know how it goes. If the image is clear then I can stick with the mx 4000 to make my media computer. The G2TiVX Pro-VT will be used for a less discriminating computer :) -- Regards, Shawn Holland