Thanx for the info, I'm looking into getting a used thinkpad off ebay to use with KNOPPIX and am looking for this kind of info. In fact, I have my eyes on an A21 auction right now....
Hello,
I've been fighting an XFree86 configuration problem for many months that I finally solved with the help of Knoppix. The suggestion came from another post on these Fora, too.
My system is an IBM Thinkpad A21p with a Thinkpad Dock. The problem is that, while Knoppix (and all other Linux distros I tried) worked in the machine while NOT docked, NONE of them would give graphical output to my external monitor while docked.
The Thinkpad uses an ATI mobility 128 Rage, which is automagically detected and the ATI driver installed. That's the problem - the ATI XFree86 driver has a bug. If I booted Knoppix with xmodule=vesa or xmodule=framebuffer, I got the proper graphical output.
I hope this saves some other person the trouble I went through. There were NO posts about Thinkpad hardware that I could find that helped.
Thanx for the info, I'm looking into getting a used thinkpad off ebay to use with KNOPPIX and am looking for this kind of info. In fact, I have my eyes on an A21 auction right now....
THANK YOU!
I've been dealing with this same issue for a month.
I'll try the fix tomorrow.
Fanxiang SSD 4TB 2TB 1TB PS5 SSD M.2 NVME SSD 7300MBS PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive
$259.99
Fanxiang 4TB 2TB 1TB SSD 550MB/s 2.5'' SATA III Internal Solid State Drive lot
$188.99
Netac 1TB 2TB 512GB Internal SSD 2.5'' SATA III 6Gb/s Solid State Drive lot
$119.99
4tb Ssd 870evo Internal Solid State Drive Hard Disk 2.5 Inch Sata SSD For Laptop
$47.79
Patriot P210 128GB 256GB 512GB 1TB 2TB 2.5" SATA 3 6GB/s Internal SSD PC/MAC Lot
$15.50
Patriot P300 128G 256GB 512GB 1TB 2TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe Internal SSD Lot
$16.99
1080PRO 4TB SSD Solid State Hard Drive Ngff M.2 SSD Gaming Internal Hard Disk
$28.99
SSD 512GB 1/2/4TB 870 EVO SATA III SSD 2.5'' Solid State Drive Upgrade PC Laptop
$39.99
Fanxiang SSD 1TB 2TB 4TB Sata SSD Lot 2.5 512GB 256GB 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
$189.04
Fanxiang M.2 SATA SSD 2TB 1TB 512GB 256GB SSD Internal M2 Solid State Drive Lot
$109.99