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[debian-knoppix] X problems



Using KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN, I have problems getting X
to run on one machine.  The Iwill P4ES mobo has an AGP slot,
but I'm using a PCI graphics card, Radeon 7000 or 7500.  CPU
is 1.8GHz Pentium 4 processor.  RAM is 512MB.  The machine
runs Redhat Linux 8.0 very reliably.  The same mobo and CPU
with an AGP graphics card work fine.

Anyway, I have to use "2" as a boot argument to get a text
console.  From there, if I type "startx", after a while the
monitor says it is not getting a signal and goes into sleep
mode.  No amount of ALT-CTRL-BACKSPACE or ALT-CTRL-F1,
etc. will revive the system--requiring a hardware reset.

The latest attempt was to do (at the text console) "XFree86
-configure" followed by "startx -- -xf86config
XF86Config.new" (I might have something incorrectly
capitalized here, but it was right when I did it.)  X comes
up, a desktop (KDE presumably) displays a bunch of icons, a
panel, and so forth.  The problem here is instead of text
characters, I see boxes.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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