Re: [debian-knoppix] Video Card Problems
Hello Tom,
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:47:14PM -0500, Tom Edwards wrote:
> Klaus - First let me thank you for giving me a copy of the Knoppix CD
> when we met at CeBIT. I have used it in a couple of the courses that I
> teach and the students love it. It saves me quite a bit of set-up time
> and also prevents the students from making modifications to the OS
> during class.
I don't quite remember, did I have an english version of the CDs
for you at CeBit? I guess not, they only produced a german-defaults
version. But you probably noticed that you can boot with english
language and keyboard by saying
knoppix lang=us
at the boot prompt.
Very recent versions also have openoffice in english (or at least
most of the menus and settings are in english, some things still have to
be manually configured, but I'm working on a complete auto-translation).
You can also download the currentmost version of the CD at
http://download.linuxtag.org/
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/
, and there should be some mirrors in the US available soon.
The images ending in -EN.iso have a bootfloppy on which
lang=en is default.
> To Everyone - Some of the computers that we are using have 3D cards in
> them that are two or three years old, mostly Voodoo2-3000's and
> Voodoo2-1000's. I have been successful in running Knoppix on all of
> them except those with Voodoo2-1000 cards. I have tried every
> combination of server and screen size and depth that I can think of, but
> no luck. Any ideas?
Maybe those cards are not supported by XFree4.1 yet?
You could try these boot options:
knoppix xmodule=vesa
or
fb1024x768
(no "knoppix" at the latter line).
If the Voodoo2-cards have no 16bit mode, you may want to add
depth=24 or depth=32 at the first option.
The fb1024x768 line was recently added for Notebooks that have strange
graphics chipsets, and only work in framebuffer mode.
I'm waiting for XFree4.2 to show up in Debian, which supports
more of the newer cards. But the release of a working XFree4.2 package
in Debian (and KDE3) seems to be delayed due to some internal problems.
I still hope that packages will be available for me to include on the
LinuxTag version of the CD. The problems with the Voodoo2-card may be
resolved in XFree4.2 already.
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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