Mark, I just wanted to update you on the procedure that I needed to go through in order to get DRI active again on a fresh new test disk with Puppy 2.13beta2 on my ATI Radeon 9500. In my previous message, I said that all I thought I needed to do to get DRI active was modify the line in the "fin...

Gn2 , I finally got it :oops: ! WAS = me :lol: BTW, do you think I put too many issues in one place (like the "...eggs in one basket" thing)? While I just thought I was being efficient and organized, I may have actually made it indigestible! These are important problems, and I'll almost f...

Thanks Mark for your impressions in your last post and I tend to agree with them. I think that "my card" (the 9500 in particular) is the limiting (or fussy) factor, since my other ATI Radeon cards did great video when I first booted-up Puppy in the past, and they still do great video now t...

Tempestuous , thanks for the information about the limitation on how to optimally use the video or 3D game drivers in Puppy (or is it Linux generally?). I know there's no such basic limitation within Windows (wherein you can have the best video and the best gaming drivers running concurrently -- I ...

Mark, yes, sis_agp is there in lsmod.

Sounds like everything's OK. What should I try next? 3DCC or...

Mark , I think I must have some detail wrong. I set up a new 2.13beta2 disk on my 9500-based computer and I selected 1024x768x24 as my basic Puppy video setup at first bootup, so everything is fresh and with default settings. I immediately located the file "findhostbridge" in Rox in the f...

Mark, I think we've got success, since DRI is now finally active on both the 9500 and 9600 as long as I use the r300 or ATI-fglrx drivers in 3DCC! Your last suggestion about the rc.local file DID it! With the 3D demo, while my 9600 card only reports 33.33 fps, my 9500 Pro reports 50 fps (just like m...

Mark, here are the ScanPCI Reports for both the 9500 and 9600. Since the two reports have some length, I'm attaching them within a PupZipped file (they are from Leafpad, pasted into AbiWord and saved as text files). Let me know if there's anything amiss (like you don't get two complete report files ...

Ted Dog , what you said about OpenOffice is apparently true, since if I save a multisession with both Firefox and OpenOffice newly installed, I often can't reboot that session (however, if I install Firefox in one session, then OpenOffice in the next, this seems to work). However, consider the foll...

Flash, I'm looking for your reply to me that you mentioned. I don't see that you've responded here, since this is not the HowTo section that you referred to in this thread. Or is it?

Hi, Flash. You said Withasong, what I said in my reply to your post in the Howto section Oops...but I don't know what you said, since I can't find that I've posted anything in the HowTo section to which you've responded (though I posted something in the Advanced Topics, Multi-session live-CD/DVD , b...

Thanks, Flash, for letting me know I could mount the failed disk, scavenge around in it, and maybe get what I want (I didn't know this was possible, but now that you said it, it makes sense). I had assumed that everything was compressed and would not be accessible. When I do my show-and-tell and tak...

The following are excerpts from what I said in the reports, but everything's now on one page in this posting (and with c o l o r too). The information is kind of hard to read because it's information heavy, so I've tried to further clarify or sum things up in the area further below after the followi...

I've tried to report on all 3 video cards in the spirit of Mark's Best is as much info as possible This means I have multiple reports on each of the 3 ATI Radeon video cards. There is one report based on the default video contained in 2.13beta2 for each of the 3 video cards, and then I've also tried...

I've been reading with interest this thread about multisession problems that some of been having. I've been having some mutlisession issues with a variety of "faces" (I mean that there's not just one problem, but a variety of problems) which I've posted over here , with multisession stuff ...

It's Wednesday morning in my part of the world and I was just about to leave for the day when I saw the messages from the 2 of you (Mark and Gn2). It is my intent to post my attachment of the results for all 3 computers that I mentioned in my last post within this forum (I will zip it up so I can at...

Got everyone's messages. Thanks for the quick responses! I'll be away for a day (all day tomorrow), but I'll get back the following day (so I won't be able to respond for slightly more than 24 hours, but I will return on Thursday). I think I now know what information is needed. I will send the follo...

I have a few more multisession issues to report: 1. About 10%-25% of the time, when I activate reboot to save a multisession, I get a total blackout (what I mean by this is that the screen goes blank and black, and nothing ever happens again). Of course, if I did anything important during that sessi...

Tempestuous, on my 9500-based computer, I see agpgart but not sis_agp when I enter lsmod. I also see "fglrx" above agpgart, but what follows agpgart is sound-looking modules plus other stuff. I do see a sis900 further down, but I don't think that's what we want. Let me know if I should pos...

I see that you have indeed changed MPlayer in a variety of ways: 1. The appearance is considerably changed (the skin, I'm talking about) in this updated version. By the way, when I've tried to change skins previously, they either don't show up in the section in which you choose them or Puppy says th...