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    noob: monitor refresh and filesystem

    Hi there,

    a few startup problems from a linux noob who is playing around with Knoppix 3.4

    What I would like to know is this:
    - how to change the resolution of my monitor, (Iiyama HM703 Vision Master Pro413)

    I have also run the OverClockix cd (with kernel2.6) to see if this would help me, and I found therein a list of supported monitors. Mine is not in it, probably the reason for it blinking so much; it's now working at 60Hz and that is not much fun. I have found on the internet somewhere (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/198749) that I could use the command: ddcxinfo-knoppix -monitor to find out what my monitor is capable of. The solution would supposedly be to paste that info into the existing file: /etc/X11/Xf86Config-4.
    I'm pretty sure though that I will do that wrong, so is there a different (ie less chance of screwing things up) way?

    next issue:
    - I cannot enter my hard drive:
    Could not mount device.
    The reported error was:
    /dev/hde1: Input/output error
    mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

    It is a Raid 0 combination of two Maxtor hard drives connected to an onboard raid controller of the brand Silicon Image, which is nicely detected at bootup. On the drives are 3 partitions filled with my current os: windows xp. Reading through this forum I learned that ntfs is detected and can be read on virtually all machines, but sofar just not mine. When running with Overclockix I got a little different error message when trying to mount the harddrive:
    cannot read superblock ( whatever that may be ).
    When reading the first error message, the one from Knoppix3.4, I am guessing towards the idea that I should somehow specify the filesystem. Now I know that that should be done in the file fstab, but I'm not sure I'm supposed to be touching that.

    Perhaps this info helps:
    motherboard is a NVIDIA Nforce2 A7N8XE

    If needed, I can post the lspci -v output, but I will refrain from doing that for now, it will make this post a bit long

    Thanks in advance,

    William

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    I have just found 'captive ntfs' and downloaded a 30MB chunk of ntfs drivers from the URL the program provided, and eventhough it said that the drivers were all succesfully downloaded, I got no further since there were no NTFS partitions to be found on my pc. Apparently.

    I then manually typed in the mount command it prescribed, but that gave me this:

    root@ttyp1[knoppix]# mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/hde1 /mnt/hde1
    Captive NTFS v1.1.4. Check a new version at: http://www.jankratochvil.net/

    with a cursor waiting for something, but not doing anything

    Does anybody else with an nforce2 motherboard with xp installed on a raid 0 configuration experienced this before?

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    After reading around the net for a while I have come to the conclusion that reaching the harddrive seems to be impossible for the simple fact that the onboard RAID controller from Silicon Image (Sil3112) is a software raid controller, whereas a hardware raid would have been more cooperative.

    Eventhough the silicon image controller is detected during boot time, it is apparently not possible to communicate with it in the same way as windows xp does, seeing that the error message is informing me about the fact that the filesystem is pretty much unintelligble for linux.
    Perhaps it would work if I were to start from the ground up and create the partitions installed from within linux and use linux only, but for me personally, there is no chance of that happening. I guess I just need a new (read: extra) hard drive for linux alone. Luckily this motherboard allows that.

    Still, can anybody explain to me how I can change this possibly simplest of simple things: the refresh rate of my monitor?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by -==-
    Still, can anybody explain to me how I can change this possibly simplest of simple things: the refresh rate of my monitor?!
    Try a cheatcode (or two or three) when you boot:

    screen=1024x768 xvrefresh=80

    Here is the documentation on cheatcodes:
    http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/CheatCodes

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    Quote Originally Posted by mzilikazi
    Quote Originally Posted by -==-
    Still, can anybody explain to me how I can change this possibly simplest of simple things: the refresh rate of my monitor?!
    Try a cheatcode (or two or three) when you boot:

    screen=1024x768 xvrefresh=80

    Here is the documentation on cheatcodes:
    http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/CheatCodes
    Well, what is it doesn't work?!

    I've got SAMSUNG 1100DF 21" and it is capable of 1600x1200x85Hz .. 1024x768x120Hz.. and if I type what you said, it switches the resolution, but the damn refresh rate is still 60Hz!!!


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