psankar
07-08-2005, 03:16 AM
A million thanks to Mr Knopper for coming up with knoppix. A story is coming....
I managed by sheer tempting of Murphy's law to get my laptop's LCD (Sony vaio K13) crushed by a sliding door. Saw a site on the net which offered cheaper (~$300) LCD compared to what Sony was asking for (~$750). Installed it only to see that the display was dark. The LCD guys were clueless and I lost patience. When you boot the computer, during boot screen display is bright but once you enter X it suddenly goes dark. I thought this is not some backlight problem and more $$$s out of my pocket. Downloaded many drivers from net and tried.. still the same dark screen. Tried many other Linux versions, only to get acquainted with linux. Then comes the latest version of knoppix (3.9). Put the CD in, booted and tada, the display remains bright. Installed it to hard drive and am writing this appreciation staring at the same bright display..
This was a bit freaky. It appears that there is a demon sitting on the knoppix installer, who by the way is much brighter than many tech support people, sorting out what works and what works not, make decisions and do an optimal trouble shooting and installation in 15 mts. Just crazy...Spent some time thinking about the brain of the guy behind this demon and felt I had to write a note of appreciation here... Thank you!!!
I managed by sheer tempting of Murphy's law to get my laptop's LCD (Sony vaio K13) crushed by a sliding door. Saw a site on the net which offered cheaper (~$300) LCD compared to what Sony was asking for (~$750). Installed it only to see that the display was dark. The LCD guys were clueless and I lost patience. When you boot the computer, during boot screen display is bright but once you enter X it suddenly goes dark. I thought this is not some backlight problem and more $$$s out of my pocket. Downloaded many drivers from net and tried.. still the same dark screen. Tried many other Linux versions, only to get acquainted with linux. Then comes the latest version of knoppix (3.9). Put the CD in, booted and tada, the display remains bright. Installed it to hard drive and am writing this appreciation staring at the same bright display..
This was a bit freaky. It appears that there is a demon sitting on the knoppix installer, who by the way is much brighter than many tech support people, sorting out what works and what works not, make decisions and do an optimal trouble shooting and installation in 15 mts. Just crazy...Spent some time thinking about the brain of the guy behind this demon and felt I had to write a note of appreciation here... Thank you!!!