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Newbie question
Well, I finally have a chance to try Linux without messing up my laptop. I have few questions though:
1. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 or when I logout, my screen is all messed up. Nothing is legible on the screen. All I see are lines and colors and dots. Why is this happening? My laptop has a nVidia GeForce4 440 Go card and the max resolution I set when using Knoppix is 1400x1050.
2. My laptop does not come with built-in floppy drive and I don't want to install Knoppix on my hard-drive, so, my question is, can I save the configuration on a directory in my Windows partition? Or, is there a way to save configuration on a local HDD?
Thank you for your help.
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1. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 or when I logout, my screen is all messed up. Nothing is legible on the screen. All I see are lines and colors and dots. Why is this happening? My laptop has a nVidia GeForce4 440 Go card and the max resolution I set when using Knoppix is 1400x1050.
I assume that everything works ok except for when you log out or hit Ctrl+Alt+F1.
hmmmmm.....how exactly do you boot? Are you passing any options at boot time?
can I save the configuration on a directory in my Windows partition? Or, is there a way to save configuration on a local HDD?
It's called "persistent home" and you can read about it here:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=155
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When I boot Knoppix, I use this command: knoppix lang=us screen=1400x1050. That's it. And yes, everything works fine except when I logout or hit Ctrl+Alt+F1.
Btw, thank you for the link for "Persisten Home" thing.
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Do you see the penguin startup screen with hardware detection, etc.?
If not you are using a non-supported video mode for the consoles, so try and boot up with:
knoppix lang=us screen=1400x1050 vga=normal
HTH
rock
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