Re: KNOPPIX CD to check computer's linux compatibility?
thanks for your information
i am a Linux Newbie, and have a lot of troube in fixing audio drvier.
so i
install knoppix on my computer. and it works. but the problem is i have
install a lot of dummy stuff on my computer too, i wonder if there is a
kind of live debian based cd like knoppix, but rather light-weighted? in
another word, the live cd will drive your audio/video system and will
not install other dummy program .such as KDE ....
thank you.
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:19:23AM -0400, Silvan wrote:
>?On Monday 17 May 2004 08:35 pm, alex wrote:
>?
>?> It looks like there is no shortcut to check compatibility with a
>?> KNOPPIX CD other than try to make all the devices work.
>?
>?A suggestion. Grab the DeMuDi image from AGNULA. (No URL handy, but it's
>?easy to google up I'm sure.) It's a special version of Knoppix done up with
>?Linux audio applications in mind.
>?
>?If you boot the thing, and if everything goes well, the first thing on your
>?screen will be QJackCtl. That means modern, next generation audio is
>?working. Video on-screen means video is working. Go into a Konsole and try
>?running "glxgears" and you know you have 3D support (or not). If you really
>?want to know more, you can find the KInfoCenter easily enough, which is a
>?really handy little utility that provides the equivalent of catting around
>?in /proc to look at stuff, and a very spiffy memory status display.
>?
>?Boom. You'd have to spend a lot longer trying to do it some other way, I'd
>?think. It's not that fast to boot up far enough to get to the point where
>?you can run these few commands, but you'd have to issue a *lot* of commands
>?to come up with the same info you can get by just letting it do its thing.
>?You'd either have to do a lot of typing, or go to the trouble to figure out
>?how to do up your own hacked version of Knoppix to run your custom "show me"
>?scripts. Or put the scripts on a floppy, maybe, if the computers still have
>?floppies.
>?
>?Besides, think of it this way. Someone will be looking over your shoulder.
>?Wouldn't you rather show them KDE, glxgears, and KInfoCenter than a bunch of
>?cryptic messages on a text screen? :)
>?
>?> But, I haven't tried the CD on a computer with integrated video
>?> or audio so I have no idea how that would show up during bootup.
>?
>?I have. It works fine. i810 video, i845 video, ac97 audio, sis900 ethernet,
>?maybe some other stuff. All the usual "crap hardware" offenders. I haven't
>?tested it *extensively*, but I've looked at enough different computers to be
>?really impressed with how well it works. It even supported a USB mouse, I'm
>?almost positive. (That box actually had two mice, and I'm only mostly sure I
>?was using the USB one.)
>?
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