FLashdrive from Linux Magazine 7.5 Fails

[gdorner]

I bought the current magazine, ran the live DVD just fine, and downloaded to an 8 GB flash drive. It boots just fine, too, and seems to install correctly. But after the splash screen (with Linux Mag ad) loads, it seems to quit. That is, no icons appear at the bottom of the screen, thus no portal to the GUI Knoppix. If I let it sit a while, the random screensaver take over, so it seems to be running under the hood. I can get to the terminal and execute various Linux commands. I don't know enough about Knoppix yet to do more to help.

Suggestions? I'm downloading 7.4 to see if that works.

George

[klaus2008]

Hi George,

it could be useful to know more about your graphics card and monitor resolution.

[gdorner]

It is a Compaq CQ60 with Nvidia GeForce 8200m G, 16:9, 1366X768 graphics. One review called this the poorest rating they had ever seen for a laptop, and there are numerous complaints about its speed for games. But I bought it for a special purpose and to have WIndoze in the house (Vista ugh), a mostly Mac house. It runs well with the DVD and has run Ubuntu and several of the puppies since it was new.

Thanks for the quick reply

BTW, I tried to run it on a Dell machine with XP but the bios wouldn't boot from USB. I saw what to do about that somewhere, but have forgotten where.

BTW2, I tried to download 7.4 but Norton wouldn't let me download BitTorrent. 8-) I'll put Norton to sleep to do so when I have time.

George

[gdorner]

I thought I replied, but I don't see it so I'll repost.

The machine is a Compaq CQ60 with Nvidia GeForce 8200m G (correctly identified at boot) with 1366X768. By reviews this is a dog and many game players sought ways to replace the graphics card. I used it to advantage when I needed Windows Vista (rarely, mainly to configure a hearing aid) and tried many distress on it. I had Ubuntu installed from 8 thru now and used several Puppies.

The live version of Knoppix works fine off the DVD (nice screensavers) with impressive list of utilities and useful stuff.

I tried the USB on an old Dell with XP, but the BIOS doesn't support USB boots and it has only a CD drive.

No offense to the magazine, but is there a utility here to swap the background.jpg splash screen? If not, I can still handle that.

I'll study the Cheatcodes which I just discovered.

Thanks for you quick response.

George

[klaus2008]

I'll study the Cheatcodes which I just discovered.
I would start with the screen cheatcode.
knoppix screen=1366x768

[gdorner]

I did that with the same result and, after scanning the cheat codes I booted with knoppix vga=0 debug -b 3 and got the same result.
Upon exiting to the shell I saw "The graphical environment...'

Another hint?

[gdorner]

I tried fb1024x768 at boot and that seemed to do the trick. Then I rebooted from the flash drive with no cheats and got the original result: no Home folder at upper left, no icons popping up from bottom.

So I'll live with the fb1024x768 a while, then alter the boot file on the flash drive unless you give other advice.

Thanks

George

Visiting Germany this summer on river cruise from Amsterdam to Basle. Mein Urgrossvater stammt aus Schiltach im Schwarzwald in 1855.
My German is furchtbar, but spellcheck makes it worse. 8-)

[klaus2008]

I would suggest two other attempts:
knoppix video=1366x768 and
knoppix video=1366x768 xmodule=fbdev

[buymystock]

I bought the current magazine, ran the live DVD just fine, and downloaded to an 8 GB flash drive. It boots just fine, too, and seems to install correctly. But after the splash screen (with Linux Mag ad) loads, it seems to quit. That is, no icons appear at the bottom of the screen, thus no portal to the GUI Knoppix. If I let it sit a while, the random screensaver take over, so it seems to be running under the hood. I can get to the terminal and execute various Linux commands. I don't know enough about Knoppix yet to do more to help.

Suggestions? I'm downloading 7.4 to see if that works.

George
If you will open Terminal and type "sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver" (without the quotation marks), this will remove the screen saver files from your system and it won't bother you anymore. Same thing goes for the little blue man icon at the bottom right hand corner of your screen called "kaccessible" that keeps coming back almost instantly each time you try to shut it down--but type "sudo apt-get remove kaccessible" (without the quotation marks) instead of typing "sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver" (without the quotation marks).

[buymystock]

I would love to buy a DVD that has the new 7.5 Knoppix on it! Can you tell me where to send my request?
Bye now, Cheers!

[gdorner]

The splash screen is not the screensaver, I think. but a image background.jpg. And, I don't see the little blue man with this version, which was special prepared for the magazine and a conference in Europe, i think. But I'll get my sudo on and do some more experimenting.

I have tried the suggestions and all the options in Preferences>Desktop Preferences, but the only thing I found that works is boot: fb1024x768. Now the desktop icons I have chosen come up on the left and the control strip (my Mac dock) pops up from the bottom with a cursor tap there.

I did change to a single color for the desktop in the above mentioned selection, which eliminates the background.jp loading.

I was pretty dense to not recognize that the problem seems to be that the control icons are off the screen at the bottom. What is different in the DVD boot so that there is no difficulty there? (rhetorical ?)

The 7.5 DVD is bound in the April issue of Linux Pro Magazine. With a brief article by Klaus.
U.S. $12.99
Here in the U.S.A. it is at Barnes & Noble bookstores and, I am sure, elsewhere.

Part of the charm in Linux is making it do what you want it to, and you usually can.

[buymystock]

I just looked at the Barnes and Nobel web site and did a search for Linux and Linux Magazine and Linux Magazine Pro and it was not there, although they had plenty of
other Linux items but not specifically Linux Magazine Pro, the magazine that contains the Knoppix 7.5 DVD.




The 7.5 DVD is bound in the April issue of Linux Pro Magazine. With a brief article by Klaus.
U.S. $12.99
Here in the U.S.A. it is at Barnes & Noble bookstores and, I am sure, elsewhere.


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