On Wednesday 29 Apr 2009, jtd wrote: > On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Arun Khan wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 Apr 2009, jtd wrote: > > > On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Mukund Deshmukh wrote: > > > > 2. Knoppix - Behaves erratically - mouse stops working , key > > > > board stops working, monitor complains "out of sync" etc. > > > > > > Flaky hardware > > > > Possible but ... with Knoppix, I have experienced improperly > > detected display on perfectly good hardware; on which LiveCDs of > > Ubuntu, openSUSE booted fine (1280x1024 @ 24 color depth). > > Afaik going above "standard" vesa resolution is always dicey. Afaik > upto 800 x 600 is standard and 1024 x 768 also common enough (and > implemented in the vga bios in a more or less standard way). > Due to volatile nature of a live cd, configuring the display is a > problem.
True. In my case FWIW, 1280x1024 res. was auto detected by the hardware detection of the Ubuntu/openSUSE LiveCDs. I did not set them @ boot time. -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
