CatDude, You are good! Kinda freaked me out a bit when u told me u knew what monitors I had! I glanced over my shoulder just to be sure no one was there...hah just kidding. 8) Yeah I was using a bulky 19" but decided to go back to my more "compaq-ed" 17" CRT. Pardon my mini-blund...

Aw man, that sounds like some sucky work. I guess I'll just rely on the BIOS for a little while. How about my HDD temps? I'm very curious about them b/c they are in a custom-made silencing device. Sort of like a removable 3x3.5" HDD bay wrapped in 1.5 inch "egg-carton" foam. I imagine...

Hey Catdude, I checked the xorg.conf and it referred to XXXNVXXX1445 so I did not move those 2 files. The rest were moved to my documents. I rebooted and xorg.conf0 was re-creatred it seems. My resolution stayed at 1152x864 and everything works fine. So I suppose I can delete all those files from my...

Hey SirDuncan,

This is a desktop computer. The BIOS has a few temperature readings (for the MB and CPU) which leads me to believe I do have thermal sensors.

Hey thanks for all the replies guys. Catdude, I just edited my menu.lst and added acpi=force on the correct line of code u showed me. I am about to reboot and see if I get some temps with "modprobe thermal". I'm not sure I need conky I imagine I will just glance at my temps 1-2 out of curi...

Hey Catdude, I've noticed after all my tinkering there are no several files in my /etc/X11 folder that are named the following... -xorg.conf -xorg.conf0 -xorg.conf. -xorg.conf.backup -xorg.conf.bak -xorg.conf.NVidiaCPQ1445 -xorg.conf.NVidiaVSC384d Something just feels off / sloppy about that. The fi...

"Try booting with the option puppy acpi=on or puppy acpi=force."

Where do I enter this? ...I'm not booting from the LiveCD. Puppy is on my HDD. I tried exiting to prompt and entering both but I got something like "no such command was found."

Well I've been using meebo the last few days and I really like how convenient it it. However, I find when I rearrange my Contact list window or a convo window the frame of the window is slow to react and often chugs across my screen. It doesn't feel very snappy. Do u get this same behaviour Aitch?

Hello again CatDude, Greetings Pizzasgood ... darn skippy it is! :) modprobe thermal (in console) yielded this : WARNING: Error inserting processor (/lib/modules/2.6.21.5/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko): No such device FATAL: Error inserting thermal (/lib/modules/2.6.21.5/kernel/drivers/acpi/therm...

Is there a simple way to find my CPU / MB & HDD temps? I'm just curious to see how high they are running Puppy Linux (2.17). Restarting and going into the BIOS isn't my favourite thing to do.

Any help would be great. Thank you.

GOT IT WORKING!!! Sweeeeeeet. Very happy. I just went into /etc/x11/xorg.conf and went down to Modes "1024x768" and edited that to "1152x864." Then went Menu> Shutdown> Restart X Server. My screen adjusted to the new, higher res this time and now I'm good to go at 75Hz. I won't ...

Catdude, I have made some progress... before I was not getting all those options after typing "nvidia-settings" in console. So I went back to the link u sent me and tried something else gray mentioned to try: nvidia-xconfig I did that and rebooted, now I see the nvidia splash screen, and w...

I no longer have a copy of the ISO.

/etc/puppyversion

says : 217

Thats it.

How can I check?

I went to Menu> Help and got this:

Welcome to Puppy version 2.17, released Jul 2007
PLEASE READ: Release Notes for Puppy 2.17

Should I go somewhere else to find out? Thanks again for ur help.

The only section I have is "nvidia setings configuration"...nothing else...

Okay I typed nvidia-settings in console. I do get a get a small window to open but I do not see an "X Server Display Configuration" to click on. there is only one box unchecked and it reads: Include X Display names in the Config File. The console also outputs the following errors after I t...

Well I got the 9639 driver and it seemed it to install fine. xorgwizard still gives me the same limited resolution options. "To activate the drivers, if you have a functioning xorg setup either edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver from "nv" to "nvidia" " &q...

my card is an nvidia GF4 mx440. Maybe all I need is upgraded drivers? Can u give me some quick tips on getting / setting them up?

I have a 17" CRT monitor running from my Puppy 2.17 box. Using Xorg I could really only choose 1024x768 (24) since this monitor won't do the only higher res of 1280x1024. Is it possible to manually achieve 1152x864 (24). Thats my sweet-spot for 17" screens. Also be patient with me, I'm a n...

Will do. Speaking of tweaks ... F5 does not refresh in SeaMonkey...do u know how I can set that up? Ctrl + R is kinda lame...I mean those keys aren't even close w/ one hand.