Re the first machine, I find knoppix has problems with the nvidia gforce card in my desktop. it won't work unless i force a framebuffer by using one of the fb kernels (fb1280x1024 , fb1024x768, fb800x600)
i am pretty sure xterms/konsole start with green or cyan on black background wheneverI have used it, and thats readable. On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:15:48 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Booted Knoppix 3.2 on a couple of machines just for fun. > > Having to type "knoppix" at the boot prompt before being able to get a > "lang=us" in is yeaaars behind the times. > > Box 1. A brand-spanking new P4 2.4GHz (wish it was mine). Thought let's > see about all this jaw-dropping people cause when booting Knoppix. It > started ok, played this startrek sound (way cool!!), then the 14" LCD > screen turned black and all which remained to be seen was this little > window saying "no signal" or something similar. Not much jaw-dropping > there. > > Box 2. Boots fine. The graphix is certainly designed with a sexy-factor > in mind, but personally I find shells with low-contrast and massive > background images not useful for serious work, and bright cyan text on > white background scores at the obnoxious end of the usability scale. No > doubt that can be tweaked until the cows come home, so I didn't persue > it. Trying to find out just how much software is on a compressed > Knoppix DVD, I run dpkg -l but all I got was a "file XYZ contains > MS-DOS ^Z EOF character" or something like that. It decided to run at > 1024x768, although I run at 1280x1024 all the time, so the hardware > sure does it. There is no obvious way to fix that - the KDE size-config > changes resolution only within of what X allows. There's no > X-configurator in the menu (or else it's well hidden). Thinking that X > would have to be restarted (although its possible to change size > without X restart) I hit ctrl-alt-backspace - got a cool reference to > startreck, and the box turned itself off, at which point I decided I'd > done enough quick play. > > Certainly not a bad system for something which runs off cd/dvd! I'll > keep that in the toolbox. After 2 out of 2 non-optimal selections on > hardware issues (1 doesn't even boot), both not easily fixable, I don't > share the rave about its detection capabilities. For rescue jobs I > won't be throwing out my SuSE disks yet either, because I can take that > out of the drive once booted, whereas knoppix remains firmly locked in > the tray, and I don't need open office to fix system problems. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
