thanks for your information i am a Linux Newbie, and have a lot of troube in fixing audio drvier. so i install knoppix on my computer. and it works. but the problem is i have install a lot of dummy stuff on my computer too, i wonder if there is a kind of live debian based cd like knoppix, but rather light-weighted? in another word, the live cd will drive your audio/video system and will not install other dummy program .such as KDE ....
thank you. On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:19:23AM -0400, Silvan wrote: >?On Monday 17 May 2004 08:35 pm, alex wrote: >? >?> It looks like there is no shortcut to check compatibility with a >?> KNOPPIX CD other than try to make all the devices work. >? >?A suggestion. Grab the DeMuDi image from AGNULA. (No URL handy, but it's >?easy to google up I'm sure.) It's a special version of Knoppix done up with >?Linux audio applications in mind. >? >?If you boot the thing, and if everything goes well, the first thing on your >?screen will be QJackCtl. That means modern, next generation audio is >?working. Video on-screen means video is working. Go into a Konsole and try >?running "glxgears" and you know you have 3D support (or not). If you really >?want to know more, you can find the KInfoCenter easily enough, which is a >?really handy little utility that provides the equivalent of catting around >?in /proc to look at stuff, and a very spiffy memory status display. >? >?Boom. You'd have to spend a lot longer trying to do it some other way, I'd >?think. It's not that fast to boot up far enough to get to the point where >?you can run these few commands, but you'd have to issue a *lot* of commands >?to come up with the same info you can get by just letting it do its thing. >?You'd either have to do a lot of typing, or go to the trouble to figure out >?how to do up your own hacked version of Knoppix to run your custom "show me" >?scripts. Or put the scripts on a floppy, maybe, if the computers still have >?floppies. >? >?Besides, think of it this way. Someone will be looking over your shoulder. >?Wouldn't you rather show them KDE, glxgears, and KInfoCenter than a bunch of >?cryptic messages on a text screen? :) >? >?> But, I haven't tried the CD on a computer with integrated video >?> or audio so I have no idea how that would show up during bootup. >? >?I have. It works fine. i810 video, i845 video, ac97 audio, sis900 ethernet, >?maybe some other stuff. All the usual "crap hardware" offenders. I haven't >?tested it *extensively*, but I've looked at enough different computers to be >?really impressed with how well it works. It even supported a USB mouse, I'm >?almost positive. (That box actually had two mice, and I'm only mostly sure I >?was using the USB one.) >? >?-- >?Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >?Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 >?http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ >? >? >?-- >?To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >?with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >? -- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]