So recently I bought a new computer. It's got an Asus M2NBP-VM motherboard in it with an nVidia chipset for just about everything. There are two things about it more important than the rest. First, the video card is a "Quadro NVS210S" aka "Geforce 6" (?). It didn't quite work right out of the box. Software 2D. So I installed the nVidia binary drivers using aptitude: nvidia-glx 1.0.8776+2.6.17.7-11.2 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver Then I had to run "nvidia-glx-config enable" which did some magic I think to my xorg.conf and made it all work rather magically. But the contrast/brightness was all hosed, and no matter what I did to my monitor controls, the colours were all washed out. So finally I had to run "nvidia-settings" which has some on-card controls for brightness/contrast/gamma - tweaked with those values 'til things were right. Now everytime I reboot I need to run "nvidia-settings -l" to make the colours right. Annoying, but doable. It's amazing that this on-motherboard 3D graphics card outperforms the standalone one I had in my old system. I imagine if I actually sprung for a PCIE 16x that I'd be stunned. I think I'll avoid that. --
PhiloVivero - 20 May 2007
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