On Dec 19, 2005, at 5:03 PM, anthony lordi wrote: > Tried several versions of Knoppix, i.e. up to about 3.7. Found 3.1 > worked > best. Used Mepis 2004.06. Same problem with both, black diagonal lines > across display, Knoppix far worse than Mepis. The display was > recognized but > the display had distortion. Tried buffer, and different > resolutions. 800x600 > seemed to work best for size, but all had black lines. My laptop is > somewhat > antique with 192 MB ram and 400Mhz intel. Toshiba Satellite 2595.
The versions of Knoppix you mention all used the 2.4.x kernel unless you explicitly told it to use 2.6. 3.8 and later used the 2.6.x kernel exclusively. Currently, I use the 4.0.2 version and am enjoying it. It's worked on every machine I've tried, although on some I need to pass it some cheatcodes. I'd like to give Knoppix 4.0.2 a try on your laptop. Any chance we can get together at the next CWE-LUG meeting (first Saturday in January, the 7th)? BTW, for a bit of background on how Knoppix boots and how cheatcodes alter the boot process have a look at this page[3]. One of the tips on the page describes trying different xmodules= to figure out the optimal one for your display[4]. In fact, can you boot Knoppix and run this command to see what driver Knoppix is guessing and what you actually have: grep -i driver /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 lspci > Libranet configured the display fine. However, there is an issue > with the > usb. Usb flash drive seems to work with the cli, but thus haven't > been able > to configure gui. I say work, but have only been able to open OO.o > files > read only. Haven't given up yet. Want to try later version of > Libranet. Libranet pre-3.x used the 2.4.x kernel while 3.0 used 2.6.x kernel [2], which in my experience has had better USB support. [1] http://distrowatch.com/knoppix [2] http://distrowatch.com/libranet [3] http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Knoppix/BootProcess [4] http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Knoppix/BootProcess#tip2 Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
