On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:06:56PM -0400, Scott Patterson wrote:
I wasn't browsing through the archives and noticed someone had a post
about the Dell Optiplex GX260 not working with Knoppix.
The problem is when the xserver tries to start. If I use the boot
command-line "knoppix xserver=ati", it works fine; however, if I don't
enter anything and let it autodetect, the display goes blank and I have
to pull the power. I suppose the incorrect video driver is being used,
but, I don't know how to debug or prove that. I'd be willing to be a
guinea pig and help fix this problem if someone can give me some
pointers. BTW, this problem still exists in the latest release, Knoppix
v3.2 2003-05-20. The video card is an ATI Radeon VE 7000 (32MB).
The main problem is broken hardware. The Dell Optiplex seems to have a
LOT of problems related to power management.
But maybe you could send the PCI numbers of the graphics card, for
hardware autodetection?