On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:57:45AM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:21:59 -0800, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There is a question I have about Knoppix. It's helped me a couple of > > times, but I've had problems booting it other times whenever I've had > > such old monitors (I use them to maintain servers) that the X interface > > chokes. > > > > I've tried various boot switches to force CLI or cheap X, but nothing > > I've tried works. Anyone know the secret sauce? > > You have tried "knoppix 2" at the first boot prompt? This goes into > character screen mode after it finishes booting. The initial > scrolling screen showing the boot-up messages may be sent at a video > rate that your monitor doesn't support, but have patience and the > video will revert to something simple. >
I tried the switch, but I didn't try waiting. I'll remember that next time. In all honesty, seeing a monitor driven out of spec scares me. I suspect that the short lifetime of the screen on my first color laptop may have resulted from some clumsy attempts to configure X on it. The only thing that frightens me more than seeing a monitor fritz is _hearing_ it hum loudly from whatever I'm pumping over to it. I suppose there's little left after that except generating smoke ... > There is also a boot-time switch to set the horizontal and vertical > scan rates for the X video. Again, this seems not to affect the > boot-time messages, so they may still be invisible. > > carl Pardon me for being critical, but one could wish for a better immediate user interface. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
