Robert. I'll look forward to bringing my laptop to the cwelug on 1/7. I miss the Sunday sessions at ACLU. I'm going to try the suggestion for the display driver. I would like to try Lib 3 one of these days also. Tony. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Central West End Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [cwe-lug] USB devices with Libranet 2.7 and 2.8
> > 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/ > _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
