1st problem: DVDs and other videos (avi's, mpeg's, etc.) work in a basic manner on 2 computers, but on the one with the 9500, all I get is either a totally blue screen (if I choose 16 bit color) or a totally black screen (if I choose 24 bit color), though the sound plays. On this one computer without a useful display, if I use Xvesa instead of Xorg, it plays DVD's with gXine, but if I try avi's, mpeg's, etc., it says "error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device" and it won't play ANY of these non-DVD-type videos (and interestingly, gXine plays the DVD's but MediaPlayer won't, and MediaPlayer gives the quoted error message for DVD's and all other video formats). BTW, on this one troubled computer, I have 2 GB of physical memory (and on the other 2, I have 512 MB).
2nd problem: On the two computers which have no basic problem displaying DVD's, avi's mpeg's, etc., the video is acceptable until there is movement, in which case the images kind of fracture horizontally, and in full screen, this is often VERY pronounced and unacceptable (and this is also true of the one computer with the 9500 video card using Xvesa and gXine to view DVD's).
To restate and summarize, one computer has no really useful video (though Windows with this same 9500 video card is absolutely gorgeous with all types of videos) and the other two computers (with the 8500 and 9600 cards) often have fractured flickers.
While I need a basic solution for the one computer with the 9500 card which doesn't play any videos of any format (such as in MediaPlayer), what I really need on all 3 computers is a larger solution so I can get results which can compete with what I can do in Windows (I just hate Windows looking better!), and I'm talking about smooth full-motion video (which I don't seem to have yet in Puppy). I'm persistent and determined to find out how I can make my Puppy as good as (if not better than) Windows.
I read with interest the thread of ideas about ATI cards in topic 10405 and followed up on linuxnoob1112's link posted on August 23, 2006, about ATI drivers. I believe that these drivers can be installed in Puppy if I understood the responses in that forum thread, but I sure have a lot of questions about using it in my Puppy.
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LINKS:
1. This Forum's Topic 10405: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=10405
2. ATI Radeon Linux Feature List: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/ ... .24.8.html
3. ATI Radeon Linux Installation Instructions: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/ ... -inst.html
4. ATI Linux Download Site: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linu ... adeon.html