On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:01:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, February 4, 2005 8:21 am
> Subject: Knoppix [was Good distro for older machine?]
>
> >
> > 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
> > interfacechokes.
> >
> > I've tried various boot switches to force CLI or cheap X, but nothing
> > I've tried works. Anyone know the secret sauce?
>
> try "screen 640x480" without quotes as switch.
>
> Check the cheatcodes text file on the CD for more settings such as vertical
> and horiz sync and color depth.
>
> Or just go to the command line with a "2" for a switch.
It was my experience watching a system during the recent InstallFest
at That Technical Bookstore that the "screen" spec and the mode "2"
switches had no effect on the initial boot-time info scroll.
If you use a relatively new flat-panel monitor, you can't damage it by
out-of-range video rates, it just puts up a one-line message "video
out of range".
carl
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