On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 00:21, Jordan Elver wrote: > Hi, > I recently swapped my Matrox G400 Max for an Nvidia Geforce 4 64Mb. I > downloaded the driver tarballs from nvidia.com, installed them, changed the > XFree86 Config and it now works ok. I have tried tux racer and that plays > better than before. I plan to try unreal 2003 when I can clear some space for > the install :) > > Question 1: > My problem is that, when I try to play a DVD the picture has a grey box over > the image. You can see the video in the background, but it's like the video has > a transparent gray box in front. DVD used to play ok with the Matrox.
Blow out your mplayer prefs/configs and fire it up again. (open a term and type: rm .mplayer - delete the hidden dir) > > Question 2: > My config file is very minimal, I removed so options, which I think were Matrox > specific. Could some kind person mail me an example of there config file? or > point to a site that has examples? There is a wonderful proggie for tweaking your NVidia - called "yanc" - http://yanc.sourceforge.net/index-en.html It's beautiful! > > Question 3: > When I check in HardDrake, it identifies the card as a Geforce 2? But in > windows, it's a Geforce 4. Why would this be? Keep in mind that the Hardwaredrake only reads from the text file - so the labelling in the text file is reflected here - use "yanc" and you'll be right. > > Thanks for any help, > Jordan > -- > Jordan Elver -- kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------- stephen & katherine kuhn -PC/Mac/Linux/Consulting/eMarketing- * linux user: 267497 * rh 7.3+ * ------------------------------------ Only someone with nothing to be sorry for smiles back at the rear of an elephant.
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