Re: [debian-knoppix] Video Card Problems
Klaus, the CD that you handed me at CeBIT (when I put it into the CD
drive with Windows running) displays an english-language web page with a
link to the english hints. We've been then starting it with lang=us
option (and a few others to get around the 3D video card problems).
If I don't have time this summer to set it to boot using the US keyboard
and lang=us, I may ask you for some help. I would like to have a set of
CDs that I could put into the drives of the 20 computers in my lab and
just reboot. Now I have to wait for each one to come to the splash
screen, press F3, usw...
I'll stay in touch. Excellent product. Keep up the good work.
Tom
Klaus Knopper wrote:
>
> 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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