Robert. See below re display. Tony p.s. Tried installing ubuntu and had configuration problems in past. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Central West End Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [cwe-lug] USB devices with Libranet 2.7 and 2.8
> > On Dec 20, 2005, at 11:14 AM, anthony lordi wrote: > >> Robert. You're a genius. >> > > More accurately, it's that whole "standing on shoulders" thing. > That's the power of FLOSS. > > >> Used 'fb800x600' on boot of Knoppix 3.1 and black lines disappeared. >> # grep -i driver /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 responded with 'Driver >> "keyboard", >> Driver "mouse" (three times, and ) ###available driver options >> are:- Driver >> "fbdev" '. On next boot, tried 'xmodule=fbdev fb800x600' and lines >> came >> back. Hadn't tried just fb800x600 before. >> > > "fb800x600" is just a shorthand for "linux ramdisk_size=100000 init=/ > etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=788 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt.gz > nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix", with the general form being "label > option option ..." Have a look in /cdrom/boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg > to see all the different kernel stanzas for Knoppix. > > Can you try these four boot commands and let us know which ones do > and which ones do not have lines on the screen: > boot: knoppix Had diagonal black lines. Post had three resolutions boot: knoppix xmodule=fbdev Got error 'no suitable X-Server found for your card' boot: fb800x600 Great display, no black lines. post had 3 resolutions, only 800x600 available boot: fb1024x768 Got error 'no suitable X-Server found for your card'. had tried vesa and fbdev > > BTW, if you can try to download a copy of Knoppix 4.0.2. It has some > very nice features that 3.1 does not. Not to mention 3.1 is quite a > bit out of date. > > 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/
