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I have a Dell Inspiron 510m. Let me know if you want the full spec.Quote:
Originally Posted by WoofDeF
Under Knoppix 3.3 nearly everything worked straight off. Only cheat code needed was screen=1280x1024 to get higher res. (I have the SVGA+ 1400x1050 LCD). Don't think the 1400x1050 works. One thing that does not seem to be in 3.3 is Wifi. Also having trouble getting a home on my USB hard drive to get recognised.
To try to advance I got the DVD version of Knoppix 4.02. This has been something of a disaster. To such an extent that I wonder if it is really Knoppix 0.402! It took me a whole weekend to get the display working. It was split in half and at 640x480. I had to move the mouse 'round the back' to get anything done. Finally I found that xmodule=i810 got things working. Once I got there I added screen=1280x1024 and that was the display OK. All efforts to use vsync and hsync seem to get ignored.
Next problem with 4.02 is that, while I get nice eye-candy icons for my USB partitions, none of them are mountable! I get a message like 'not a block device'. Now how can Knoppix get itself into this state? 3.3 has worked fine on at least three laptops so what has happened with 4? This USB problem is all the more exasperating as my main hard drive has died.
Next problem is that the Wifi card - Truemobile 1300 is not recognised. A pain.
So, in conlusion, anyone running 4.02 on an Inspiron 510m needs the cheat code xmodule=i810. I emphasise this as part of the problem was that I found many bits of advice amongst which was the right one. There seem to be a lot of people posting answers to stuff who are not actually speaking from experience. They are a danger.
Thanks for Knoppix,
Norman
HERES A SHORTENED VERSION OF MY EXPERIENCE:
Compaq Presario R3200 Notebook ( I think this is the UK retail Model )..
SPECS:
AMD 64 Processor (1800Mhz)
512 MB RAM
NVIDIA Onboard AGP
WORKS WITH: KNOPPIX 4.0 (EN LANGUAGE VERSION) booting from cdrom (downloaded via http://www.torrentsearch.com/ )
CHEATCODES REQUIRED: On first boot the notebooks touchpad was not responding at all, this was corrected on the second boot. N0 CHEATCODES REQUIRED.
APPLICATIONS TESTED: SAMBA NETWORK APPLICATION - IMMEDIATE CONNECTION TO MY EXISTING HOME NETWORK.
CAFFEINE - IMMEDIATE PLAYBACK OF AVI'S, BUT NO AUDIO ON MPG4 FILES (LACK OF CODEC).
X PLAYER - PLAYS MP3 AUDIO FILES.
3K (CD/DVD BURNING APP) - NOT POSSIBLE TO USE WHEN BOOTING FROM CD UNLESS YOU HAVE ANOTHER CD BURNER.
I hope this helps someone.Thanks to all. :D
Just installed Knoppix 4.0.2 on a Sony Vaio laptop (1.6 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, dvd-rw...) runs much faster than M$ XP Pro.
Now all I gotta do is get Knoppix to recognize the widescreen, then we'll be running smooth as glass.
As of the time of this post, all other systems and peripherals seem to be working just fine without any manual tweaking needed.
a) knoppix 4.0.2 live cdQuote:
Originally Posted by WoofDeF
b) Sony Vaio K115Z pentium 4 (M) 3.06 ghz wireless 802.11g connected with USR9106 router/gateway ADSL
b bis) it works!
c) cheatcodes ?? :-)
but here I'm trying get info to see/mount the memory stick pro interface to save some things...
if this is quick can some help me or should i go on searching... :-)
ciao
leo
I've got a newish laptop and here are the specs:
HP Pavilion (not sure of model number)
AMD64 Turion ML-28 1.6GHz
512 MB ram
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 128 mb
The only thing I see that does not work is the wireless card (Broadcom) but that might be something in the bios i havn't tooled around with yet....but here's the interesting stuff
Knoppix runs extremely fast...not to boast, I mean, EXTREMELY fast. So fast, that the CLOCK goes about twice as fast as it should, and typing is really hard because even if my finger is on a key for a millisecond too long, it will type 16 letters that i didn't intend to type. I'm not exactly sure how operating systems work deep down, but I'm guessing that the time for calculating how much time should pass in one second is controlled by the hardware, which is why I am very perplexed as to why the entire computer and clock is running at an abnormally fast speed. I'm not really looking for a way to fix this, I'd just like to let you know cause it seems like a very interesting bug!
Health and Happiness
Rob
Hi,
Celeron mobile 1400, 512M ram.
Works out of the box. :)
Motorola wireless card works with NDISwrapper although I need to click through the Wavelan and network card configurations after a reboot.
Quote:
Originally Posted by normanicus
Thanks for the info. I'm using an Inspiron 510m myself and had trouble with the resolution. It's fixed now :-)
I didn't encounter the USB problem yet. Did it work well together with earlier Versions of knoppix ? If not you might try to use a different File System on it and check partition table.
cfdisk, qtparted, fdisk aso.
does anyone know how to make it so that you are able to put the laptop into suspend/hibernate/standby mode, becuz i dont want my laptop LCD to be running 24/7.
i try setting it in the power control section, but when i go on hibernate/suspend mode the laptop just shuts off.
i'm currently running knoppix 4.0.2, i install it off the live CD.
Knoppix 4.02 runs like a dream on this machine. My only query so far is how to increase the resolution from 1024x768 to 1280x768. Am I just being greedy?
Toshiba M300 Portege
Knoppix 4.02
proc, Pentium M (centrino config) ULV (ultra low voltage) 1.2 GHZ
12" TFT, bluetooth (detected and working)
wireless (2200BG 802.11b/G) detected and working
normal lan working. sound working
No problems detected, I could run 4.02 without cheatcodes.
Tom
Tecra S2
Centrino notebook 1.6GHZ
Tested with Knoppix 4.02
hangs during boot, use cheatcode knoppix nopcmcia, system boots and runs, sound and
display work (nvidia on board)
small update, the nic isn't activated by knoppix but it does find the wireless and works with the wireless (intel pro 2200BG)
internal nic is detected by knoppix as a Marvell ethernet controller (10/100/1000) I haven't tried any modules yet
Tom
Centrino tablet notebook, 2.0 ghz 512 mb mem, 40 gb sata drive
Nvidia 6200 videocard
Tested with Knoppix 4.02
works but does not recognize the networkcard, funny enough it does see the wireless card
and works with it. Tablet pen does not work. Bluetooth not recognized (might be a defective card)
no cheatcodes nessecary
update 17-2-06, also tested with DSL on my usb watch boots and works from the usb stick with
DSL 2.1 but no networksupport whatsoever, no wifi and no nic.
Tom
Intel Celeron 1.4 Ghz (1mb cache, 400mhz fsb)
graphics intel 852GM
works with 4.02 but doesn't seen any networkdevice
(wireless is a linksys from cisco)
Please note that the L10 is not a real Toshiba on the inside, it is a clone with
a Toshiba Logo.
Tom
6000 series PIII, cd or dvd
trident xp videocard
Fully working, all onboard devices work with Knoppix 4.02
However, for good performance I would allways use the cheatcode
Knoppix dma because in some rare cases (not sure if this is a firmware problem since
the 6000 knows 2 firmwares) knoppix will fail to install, reinstalling with knoppix dma
solves the problem. (also works with Suse 9.1 and Knoppix 3.6)
No bluetooth module available for testing
60x0 series P4 celeron (tulatin), cd or dvd (this means 6050 and 6070)
trident xp videocard
Fully working, all onboard devices work with Knoppix 4.02
However, for good performance I would allways use the cheatcode
Knoppix dma because in some rare cases (not sure if this is a firmware problem since
the 60x0 knows 2 firmwares) knoppix will fail to install, reinstalling with knoppix dma
solves the problem unfortunatly this doesn't allways work well. Probably the combination
mainboard and videocard causes knoppix to mallfunction, install goes well but after install the
system boots and quits with Kernel panic BUT, installing another distro goes without problems
I'm running a 6050 with Mandriva 2005LE that works without problems (wifi included)
6100 series P4, cd or dvd
nvidia 32mb or 64mb videocard
Fully working, all onboard devices work with Knoppix 4.02
However, for good performance I would allways use the cheatcode
Knoppix dma because in some rare cases (not sure if this is a firmware problem since
the 6100 knows 2 firmwares) knoppix will fail to install, reinstalling with knoppix dma
solves the problem.
No bluetooth module available for testing
The 6100 series also works fine with Suse 9.1 10.0, Ubuntu 5.04, Knoppix 3.6, 3.81, Fedora core 4
Mandriva 2005LE (straight from the box) Mandriva 2006 (I've tested them all :-)
Tom
Tested with Knoppix 4.02
Pentium M Celeron 2.4ghz, 512 mb memory
intel graphics, wifi card (old one from a 4600sp) DVD/CDRW
15" display
only one problem, after install the "kernel panic" problem, I reinstalled with but this time booted
with the cheatcode knoppix dma and then ran the install script. Problem did not return and the
system still runs perfectly.
Tom
Tested with, Knoppix 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.81 and 4.02
Works with all versions but 3.6, 3.7 and 3.81 have wireless problems.
System is a PIII 800mhz (series goes from PIII 700 up to 1ghz, all celeron versions are 650 and 750 in europe mostly)
14" tft Trident XP/ai 16mb video card
No problems, works straight out of the box.
Tom
Portege R100, ultra thin notebook, Centrino 1ghz, very light very cool but won't install knoppix through
the pcmcia cdrom, it boots from it but drops down to a limited shell, I've tried the cheatcode
Knoppix ide2=0x180 nopcmcia
Mandriva installs without problem, so using the data from mandriva I found out that the pcmcia cdrom is located
not at 0x180 but at 0x100, alas no effect.
It could be possible to use Knoppix 4.02 on the R100 but not without loading additional modules through the usb fdd.
The story will continue :-) I haven't tried all options yet.
Update April 2006, I've done it. Knoppix can be installed but difficult, you need to activate the pcmcia slots, which means booting by usb floppy. However, Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" activates the pcmciaslot during install (both the live and the install cd) and activates everything onboard. Knoppix 4.02 can be installed but with more work (build a boot disk with the pcmcia modules....) Not easy but doable. At this time my R100 test machine is running Ubuntu Debian.
This is a kernel bug from running 32bit linux on a 64 system, not sure if it has been fixed by now but it sounds like u have the nx6125 like me. (i had the same problems)Quote:
Knoppix runs extremely fast...not to boast, I mean, EXTREMELY fast. So fast, that the CLOCK goes about twice as fast as it should
HP nx6125 brilliant system Linux supports bluetooth, wlan DVD-/+RW and graphics card fine in Mandriva 2006 64bit edition, doesn't support card reader/finger print sensor and I have not tested tv-out/exoansion slots in system but linux identifies them. No modem support but its a winmodem an am on the network in uni (10Mb/s yey!).
Knoppix didn't support X on my system back in version 3.x but i am burning the 4.0.2 DVD now and will post any success failiure i have, as i say linux works, may just be lack of drivers thats holding back knoppix as that supports everything from the command line :).
Linux has better/comparable support of the laptop as windows under 64bit, pain 2 get windows64 workin on it from what av read but am not going to bother 2 try.
Rob
On my Compal DL70 (aka ChemUSA Chembook 2070) with the following specs:
1.73 GHz Pentium M
1GB RAM
128MB Mobility Radeon X600
1680x1050 resolution
Intel Pro Wireless 2915ABG
First, the KNOPPIX-based live CDs I used.
In the KNOPPIX 4.0.1 DVD, it gets to the splash screen as usual. Loads until video driver for my Radeon is not found, then continues with vesa driver at 1024x768. Intel Pro Wireless 2915ABG and Realtek wired NIC work right away, no support for my Winmodem, and volume and hot keys don't work. Tried several of the suggestions in this forum to get 1680x1050, but no results.
With KANOTIX 2005.4, things get better. Loads with xorg ati driver and starts with 1024x768. The "sudo fix-res 1680x1050" command and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace fixes the resolution problem. Wired and wireless NICs work out of the box. Winmodem is detected as an slmodem by knet and dials successfully, but I don't hear it dial. Volume and hot keys don't work.
DSL 2.1b doesn't detect my Winmodem or stretch to the resolution. IPW2915ABG and Radeon might work fine if I use the packages in the DSL repository, but I don't want to write an xfree86 config file from scratch or configure the ipw drivers. Wired NIC works fine.
Here are the other live CDs not based on KNOPPIX that I've used:
Ubuntu 5.10 has similar results to KANOTIX. The xorg ati driver loads right away to 1680x1050. Wired and wireless NICs work out of the box. No Winmodem support. Volume and hot keys don't work at all.
Linspire 5.0.69 (live version is free [gratis], but install version is not) required me to enter the xdriver=vesa cheatcode by pressing e, e, the cheatcode, Enter, and b. If I didn't do that, it would crash at a black screen, which resulted in XP Pro doing a chkdsk. Once I did get it loaded, the resolution was 1024x768. ipw card works fine, but I didn't test the wired NIC. I hope the Linspire developers make a fix to this problem soon.
Hi: All
I am totaly new to Linux. Have some hardware experance and not to good at spelling so if i do miss spell somthing for give me.
I just recently have gained an interest in linux someting to play with.
Computer Dell Latitude D510 celeron processor 1.4Ghz 40 gig hd running totaly from boot CD
Worked right out of the box, however the wifi (wich works great did take time to reserch and set up), is missleading
on how to setup. centrino intell 2200bg mini pci card. 8)
I dowloaded both the DVD and CD for 4.0.2 the CD seems to configure ok but the DVD has problems in set up wanting a password could not get it to configure at all. :D
Thanks Knoppix for a great learning Tool. :D :D
Hi there.
Knoppix v. 4.0.2 is the first version of knoppix i have succesfully loaded on my Gateway M675. Although it loaded, some hardware was not recognized, the sound card is hopeless (as far as i can tell) and the wireless card is detected (with a wrapper) but dosn't want to work. I swapped out the broadcom wireless card for my GF's intel card and it worked on boot. Also the graphics card is a little glitchy, i cant force any res higher than 1024X768. (what you would expect from ATI). my sys info is:
Intel P4ht 2.8Ghz, 512mb 400Mhz DDRam, ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 w/128mb, 100Gb HDD(fujitsu 5400rpm), Broadcom wireless B/G, sagmatel cmajor sound card, WXGA 1440X900.
PS: oh yeah.... the P4 with HT shows up as dual processors. Two penguins show up on boot screen.
HEY EVERYBODY :) :) I JUST STARTED TO USE LINUX A MONTH AGO SO BEAR WITH......
i HAVE AN
HP DV1420CA LAPTOP
INTEL CENTRINO 1.6GHZ
2GB RAM
INTEL INTEGRATED GRAPHICS
100GB HD (PARTITIONED HALF AND HALF) NTFS / EXT3+SWAP
INTEL 2200 WIRELESS LAN
AFTER ALOT OF CHOOCHING I FINALLY MANAGED TO GET KNOPPIX INSTALLED ON MY HARD DRIVE. i HAVE THE GRUB LOADER INSTALLED SO I CAN BOOT INTO EITHER WINDOWS XP TABLET PCEDITION 2005 OR INTO KNOPPIX. I INSTALLED KNOPPIX THIS WAY: I USED PARAGON IN WINDOWS XP TO PARTITION MY DRIVE. THEN I REBOOT WITH KNOPPIX 4.0 DVD INTO KDE. I OPEN THE ROOT TERMINAL AND TYPE IN "KNOPPIX-INSTALLER" AND FOLLOW THE PROMPTS. BASICALLY I CONFIGURED THE INSTALL TO NOT FORMAT THE DISK, BUT JUST SET THE BOOT FLAG ON MY 2ND PARTITION AND TO SET THE INSTALL FOR "KNOPPIX LIKE ON THE CD" TYPE OF INSTALL. THE OTHERS ALWAYSLOCKED UP AFTER REBOOTING. eVERYTHING PRETTY MUCH SEEMS TO WORK FINE EXCEPT I AM STILL HAVENING TROUBLE FIGURING OUT HOW TO GET MY SCREEN RES UP TO 1280X768, AS OF NOW IT ONLY LETS ME CHOOSE UP TO 1024X768. iF ANYBODY KNOWS HOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD TELL ME THANKS!
Laptop: Acer Aspire 5000
Knoppix: CD version KNOPPIX4.0
It booted perfectly with no cheatcodes. I haven't explored all the details yet. DHCP got me hooked up to the internet (via cable) with no problem.
It's beautiful.
I'm using it to recover data that I messed up when I went berserk installing Debian (I don't blame Debian -- I really did some dumb things). So far, so good. Thank heavens for "testdisk" (and photorec).
hi i just bought a new laptop its an acer aspire5672wlmi.
on the previous post i noticed somebody saying something about his aspire working fine with knoppix . i was wondering if this is the same model as mine?
here are the new lapps statsa
centrino 1.6x2 dual core1 gb ddr2 ram
512mb ati x1400
100gb sata hd
bluetooth
802.11abg wireless
knoppix is ripper and i just wanna know if i can install it with no problems????
I have no idea what you mean by knoppix is ripper but of course you can't install it with no problems. See answer #2.Quote:
Originally Posted by brandonius
U may need to do some tweaking with cheatcodes. Check
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes
For an Acer Aspire 5504, the following works:
boot: knoppix noapm noapic noagp xmodule=fbdev
Do a bit of tweaking with the cheatcodes and report back in here the "symptoms" u see.
Gd luck!
Hi...im using a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 laptop with a cyber 9525 (generic) video card in it....recently i lost my hard drive and so im running knoppix v3.9 off a cd...i have an external hard drive connected via USB and everything else works properly....but still i have a resolution problem which i cant solve with cheat codes...the screen resolution is always 640x480 and there is nothing else except that....can someone please help me out in this!!!!....
My Compaq M2105US is running live under it very well. Wireless is an issue at first but solved fairly easily with Liunxant drivers. Booted right up with the live CD under Knoppix. :P
Hi
knoppix 4.01 works well on my FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO 1650 A except for the wifi card
Mauro
Version 4.0 works with Hp Pavilion zd7000. i had some boot problems initally but using 'knoppix nopcmcia' fixes whatever the problem was
I got my Dell Inspiron 2200 running on Knoppix 4.0.2. Most of the devices loaded with no fuss.
I did however have problems recognizing the Dell Wireless 1370 Internal Wireless card. For that I added the config setup steps in my knoppix.sh script on my USB flash media stick so it can do wireless on startup. It easy to setup the wireless manually if you have the bcmwl5a drivers handy and install them via the ndiswrapper script. Then you can run netcardconfig and you're up.
Another issue I'm having is the power management stuff. When I close the lid on the laptop, the system goes into an unrecoverable hiberation-like state. Luckily, I can power down pretty easily in knoppix since most of the corruptable stuff pushed to memory, but it's annoying nonetheless. I did encounter the same problem occasionally when I'd close the lid in WinXP Pro. I might need to update the BIOS or something. Any suggestions are welcome as I really haven't explored this section in depth yet.
Pherhaps allready an oldy but still widely used here, 1ghz Pentium 3 processor
512 mb of ram, 20 gig drive and DVD drive.
Knoppix 3.6 and 4.02 used, both worked without problem, network recognized.
Weird thing, 4.02 installs but on two installs (out of 5) it installs in a lower resolution
(640x480 io 1024x768) no real problem, just adjust the xfconfig as root.
Kanotix 2005.1 works without problems and as a bonus activates the hotkeys for
the soundbuttons.
No luck on getting the tv-out to work..... Yet...
Knoppix works well on my new lappie slackware dose aswell :-)
Have it HDD install on my HP Pavilion ze5600 - 2.6ghz 768RAM 30gb HDD. KnoppixV4.0.2
No problems with the install whatsoever. Everything is working, networking, cdrom, mouse pad, lcd @ 1024x768.
hello all
(a)Knoppix 5.0 dvd
(b)Acer travelmate 4151LMI
intel pentium m 725, 2mb l2 cache, 1.6ghz, 400mhz fsb
(c)needs knoppix noapic nopcmcia cheatcodes
802.11b/g wireless LAN works fine inc WEP
just trying to get the save config command to recognise something other than mnt/floppy, as this machine has no floppy!
will ask the question elsewhere.
runs better on the laptop than the desktop
the netgear wg311v3 wifi card won't work so far
Have knoppix 4.2 running on a new HP dv8000 with no problem - installed to HD not problem but I must an external mouse instead of the touch pad and the dvd drive does not work - which I find strange since it worked fine off the live-dvd. The native wireless card does not work but a D-Link AirplusG (DWL-g630) work right out of the box no problem. Hardwire to the internet was also no problem. USB external hard drives are also no problem.
Anyone have any ideas on the dvd drive?
Also, I want to use a Netgear USB wireless adapter as well but no luck.
Thanks....
I am running an Acer Travelmate 4652 using Knoppix 5.0.1.
This version will boot fully, but with a black screen unless I use the cheat code acpi=off. Using this code, everything boots normally.
I was under the impression that this is most probably an issue with my notebook. However, I booted with GRML, and noted that acpi works in GRML. I receive the following success messages when booting GRML -
ACPI Bios found, activating modules.
ac battery button container fan hotkey processor thermal video
Starting acpidaemon
If it works under GRML, I'm sure that Knoppix could be fixed so that acpi could work with it also.
Thank you for all of the good work.
1.6 Ghz Pentium M
1 gig RAM
80 GB 4200 RPM HDD
Sound works fine
all system peripherals work fine with the exception of my Ethernet connection and my intel pro wireless 2200bg wireless connection, neither of them can be configured in any way I've found;
mbox 2 doesn't work (audio interface) but that is to be expected, since it only works in conjunction with ProTools
I'd really love to get my wireless/Ethernet working, but I've not been able to figure it out thus far.
Acer Travelmate 2424. It boots up knoppix 4.0.2 and works fine except for wireless. Strangely GRML which was based on knoppix, works well including wireless right out of the box.
EDIT: Tested Ubuntu 6.06. It worked really well with my Acer 2424 right out of the box.