DigidocTN
05-16-2006, 02:14 AM
I admit I am new, and hope I am not stepping on toes. I tried Knoppix and have been running it for a week or so from CD. It introduced me to Debian and to Linux, and I find it works very well. So, I first installed it to hard drive, found it also worked very well, but looked -different- from the live CD version. So I liked it less than I had liked running it from CD. I stumbled across the warnings about installing it to hard drive, and I understand the concerns. Both about supporting it, and about it being -different- from standard Debian. Sooo, I did a net install of Debian, and watched as it took a very long time to download and setup everything. Phooey, I find that the nice graphical interface I had with Knoppix was not there in Debian. Instead I find no video, and a lot of hype about the internal Intel -810 card I was using. I replaced the i810 card with a more standard ATI card, and Even did a new and full net install of Debian again. Yep, you guessed it, still no video, no graphical interface, nothing but a console prompt.
So, here is one for you gurus. Why can I get video with Knoppix? It finds and uses the Intel i810 card fine, but the released Debian cannot work with either card? I know I am missing something here, but this machine simply works on Knoppix, and seems to be broken beyond my ability to fix it with released Debian.
So, here is one for you gurus. Why can I get video with Knoppix? It finds and uses the Intel i810 card fine, but the released Debian cannot work with either card? I know I am missing something here, but this machine simply works on Knoppix, and seems to be broken beyond my ability to fix it with released Debian.