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hasty

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Posted: Jan. 22 2004,20:53

Sorry I can't help, but know you are not alone......???

I've been showing off DSL to all my friends on loads of old machines but have suddenly failed with the same error message on a Packard P450 with a Voodoo3 built onto the motherboard. Must be a connection here.

Fortunately I'm used to the command line and the new version with Midnight Commander is excellent, so I could copy stuff from his hard drive

Have done looked at the Knoppix and Kdrive sites, but found no clues so far.

hasty

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Posted: Jan. 23 2004,22:56

Bangs head off wall.

Hasty's first law of computing.
Every time you post you discover the answer immediately by yourself.....:(

Entering "knoppix-txt at the boot prompt solved the prob." (Doesn't use the frame buffer at the start)

Surfinks try entering "xmodule=tseng" at the boot prompt.
More info at http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/CheatCodes

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surfinks

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Posted: Jan. 28 2004,00:00

Thanks,

I'll try xmodule=tseng at the boot prompt and let you know what happens.

Bill

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Posted: Jan. 28 2004,22:19

Hasty by name etc....having repented at leisure....

I don't think it will work as John has switched to a new xserver which probably wont take the knoppix cheat codes.

I've come across a similar problem with a radeon9700, while it will boot with Knoppix-txt I can't get the xserver to run.
The same machine runs brilliantly on any of the DSL 0.4.* versions using the older drivers.
Why not download 0.4.8 and try it. Once you get apt-get/synaptic working you can add what you want.

I've looked at the Kdrive site but couldn't find any hints

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Posted: Feb. 05 2004,20:01

The problem was Knoppix could not autodetect the integrated video. I switched to Debian and manually configured the XF86Config-4 file. Now everything is working.

Bill

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