For knoppix, try booting with 'vga=normal' That avoids booting with framebuffer text. (there are other vga=settings, but I haven't bothered to learn them).
The VGA text code for knoppix seems to go for the 'best possible' mode which can overwhelm the monitor.
James Miller wrote:
Hello Ray:
No. It's always been just a textmode console up until gdm kicks in--no cute little penguins. I'll reiterate that when I tried booting this system with a Knoppix CD, I couldn't get any text mode output (black screen with "vga mode not support(ed)") with all kinds of nice colors, fine resolution and little penguin like I usually get when booting with a Knoppix CD. On the kernel: I could provide the config, if that would help. Here's a selection from it that may be relevant:
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