actually Shutdown problem

[GUI_Hopper]

Hi,

I have a home brew mini tower PC with an Intel Celeron on a BioStar MB 1GB memory and two hard drives with a KNOPPIX iso on hda1 & persistant image on the other, both NTFS.

I boot from the KNOPPIX 5.3.1 DVD using 'knoppix bootfrom=/dev/hda1/K*.iso xmodule=radeon home=scan config=scsn ... ' to free up my DVD recorderdrive.

My screen on shutdown looks like what this person got on his laptop:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28833

What can I do to make the shutdown readable? I have to guess when to press <enter> so the machine will cut off. I cannot tell if there are any error messages.

I have a Radeon graphics card, here is my lspci, the display device is at the bottom.


lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:08.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8111 PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 21)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UniChrome Pro IGP (rev 01)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series]
02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series] (Secondary)

Perhaps I do not know how to shutdown properly. Should I right click on the KDE desktop and select 'Logout KNOPPIX' > "shutdown"? Or some other way?

And quite often fsck runs when I reboot.

Thanks in advance,

John

[GUI_Hopper]

Shutdown is still a problem. I CANNOT read the screen. I get video hash.
I DO hear the soundbite Initiating shutdown sequence. and the screen changes a few times but it is still hash.
Finally after the screen is still for 30 seconds or so I press <Enter> and the machine shuts off but I still cannot read anything.
The start up at boot is in good plain text.

Where does this hash come from?

John