You might also give kanotix a try; i had good luck with it on a laptop, especially happy because the streaming music via web was automagically set up with good list of streams. Plus it is able to read xfs, reiser and jfs file systems, if you are using any of those. OpenSuse just dropped jfs :(
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:35:03 -0600, "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Dec 21, 2005, at 1:12 PM, anthony lordi wrote: > > Robert. Dug up Knoppix 3.7 and it works beautifully with > > 'fb800x600'. Even > > brought up my flash drive on the desktop. > > That's great news. By default 3.7 used the 2.4 kernel. IIRC, you > can specify the 2.6 kernel with "knoppix26" So, to bring up Knoppix > 3.7 using the 2.6 kernel and the fbdev driver at 800x600, try this: > > boot: knoppix26 xmodule=fbdev vga=788 > > Let us know if that works for you. Also, I'll bring a copy of the > 4.0.2 CD to the next meeting. > > > Tried my ubuntu, and the disk vibrates awful, but I risked startup by > > damping the cd drive, and found I couldn't get the screen to > > 800x600. It > > defaulted to 640x480 and covered only 2/3 of the screen. The > > option was > > availabe but couldn't get it to work. Options are not clear like > > knoppix. > > Fired Ubuntu as I don't like the vibrating gnome desktop. Will try > > the kde > > version when available to me. Tony > > Maybe some of the Ubuntu folks here might have a hint of what's > happening. > > Again, bring your laptop to the next CWE-LUG meeting and we'll play > around with Knoppix and Ubuntu live. > > 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/ -- Erich Friesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
