Re: Cheat codes for an HP 800CT Omnibook Laptop
Klaus Knopper writes:
>
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:44:29PM -0800, John Conover wrote:
> > Klaus Knopper writes:
> > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:37:01PM -0800, John Conover wrote:
> > > > Are there any Knoppix cheat codes for the HP 800CT Omnibook?
> > >
> > > Probably yes, but what are the Symptoms, what's the error message, at
> > > which point does it stop booting?
> > >
> >
> > Thanks, Klaus. The CD is not bootable on such an ancient machine, so I
> > made a boot and root floppy, booted with a Knoppix 3.6 CD in the
> > CDROM, installed the root floppy when prompted, and it boots to KDE,
> > but the display is splattered, (looks like an X problem-windows are
> > not disappearing when closed, and overwritten with new text-moving a
> > shell results in the text behind the shell window being displayed in
> > the shell window, too.)
>
> Could also be read errors from CD, these can cause all kinds of strange
> effects. Please check the "dmesg" output for read errors.
>
> > Knoppix says its a NeoMagic NM2070 graphics chip, (some docs on the
> > Internet confirm that this is correct,) and I have unsuccessfully
> > tried Xmodule=svga, (the X server fails,) and both Fb800x600 and
> > fb1024x768 which seem to have no effect.
>
> Have you tried "knoppix xmodule=vesa"? Please be aware that options are
> case-sensitive.
>
> > I don't know if it is related, but at boot, I get a "You Passed an
> > Undefined Mode Number" message, and I have to choose 80x25.
>
> This is just caused by the fact that the NM2070 does not offer a
> 1024x768 framebuffer resolution in texmode - at least not without an
> additional compiled-in module.
>
> You can try to do a network boot instead of using a bootfloppy
> (bootfloppies don't exist anymore in recent Knoppix versions, since the
> kernel alone is already over 2MB. For booting Knoppix via PXE, a second
> computer running the "knoppix terminalserver" provides network boot
> capabilities, and with a boot floppy from http://rom-o-matic.net/ , even
> old computers can boot over a network.
>
Thanks, Klaus, I'll give it a try.
Is it possible to do knoppix-installer without X?
John
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John Conover, conover@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/
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