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Hi all,

I was trying to run knoppix 9.1 off of a flash drive on a Microsoft Surface laptop 1st gen (1782).

Pressing the volume down after pressing the power button boots from the usb, I can get...

Just renaming the files /usr/share/sounds/startup.ogg and /usr/share/sounds/shutdown.ogg will disable the startup/shutdown sounds.

(This works if you have a persistence partition/file on your...

I've been using knoppix for a long time, and I never knew that Alt+F1 would bring up the start menu (lxde calls it the launcher).

Because I didn't know this, I've always had to plug in a mouse to...

I've got a laptop that has really loud speakers, and every time I start knoppix it will blast my ears. Is there a cheatcode to disable the startup sound?

NOSOUND will disable the sound...

One thing I've noticed on some systems is that get-edid sometimes doesn't work, and if you do "sudo modprobe i2c-dev" that will allow "sudo get-edid" to work properly.

I got a new external crucial X8 usb 3.0 ssd and it reports a very large blocksize.

Unfortunately, it seems to make playing videos over the network with samba have problems. It may also be...

I can't explain the strange behavior. Perhaps it behaves a little differently if you're installing to a hard disk versus a removable usb drive.
Is your system booting as UEFI or legacy?

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You might also try to use the cheatcode fromhd

like

knoppix fromhd=/dev/sda1

On my asus eeepc 900a laptop, I can boot from different filesystems (internal HD, SD card reader, usb drive)...

I like to try to find monitors that will support 15khz signals (like for the Amiga). So I try a bunch of different resolutions with cvt but it's really a pain to do it manually.

So I resolved to...

I wanted to start terminator when knoppix loads, so I made a desktop entry file in .config/autostart

Calling the file mybash.desktop it consists of


[Desktop Entry]
Name=mybash...

I think I may have figured out how to do things from the virtual terminals to affect the X screen.

The vt for X is 6 so we can do:

chvt 6 to switch to the virtual terminal 6

Next we need to...

I'm so used to hitting CTRL+ALT+t to start up a terminal, here's how to do it in knoppix 9.1.

Go to Preferences/CompizConfig Settings Manager then click on General / Commands, set command line 1...

I installed an M.2 nvme drive in a Lenovo m710s and wanted to install knoppix 9.1 to it but am having some issues.

The flash installer doesn't see it as a hard drive or a flash drive.

It does...

I like to work with monitors and ddc:

gddccontrol is useful to control your monitors
ddcutil vcpinfo will tell you what your monitor ddc supports

with read-edid and edid-decode you can do: ...

I tried it recently and the bit torrent tracker is back up. Cool!

A couple of others that are kind of fun:

xzoom (zoom in and rotate on the screen z to rotate, x to flip x, y to flip y, +/- to zoom, arrows to fine position rectangle)
grafx2 (256...

"apt-mark showmanual" will show you all packages that you have manually installed
"apt-mark showauto" will show you all packages that are automatically installed

"apt-mark showinstall" will...

Some things I've found useful to add to knoppix from debian bullseye packages:


baobab (which you may know as the ubuntu disk usage analyzer)
xdiskusage
ncdu (netcurses text mode disk usage...

Lately, I've been getting this message when I try to go to the bittorrent tracker site:

Unable to connect

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de:6969
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I like to use the cheatcode tohd to put the knoppix dvd onto the hard drive. However, I didn't use mkimage when I ran it initially. (I don't know if that would make a difference)
For some reason,...

I still like to use my older systems, and I want to access some smb shares and vice versa.

Now remember that older systems are a "security risk" and I don't have these connected to the internet. ...

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Being able to compile mame 238 in knoppix 9.1
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What's necessary to compile mame is just:

sudo apt-get install git build-essential...

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Getting the joystick/gamepad working (using setfacl)

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Okay, I have spent way more time than I ever wanted to fiddling with permissions and...

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Knoppix 9.1 and other emulators

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You can get other emulators running also, not just mame. I was able to get:

atari800
vice (name of...

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Knoppix 9.1 and mame 235

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You can install mame 235 and run under knoppix9.1 by getting the debian i386 packages from testing (bookworm):
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