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If you have a new or newish laptop that SUCCESSFULLY boots Knoppix, then PLEASE post (a) version of Knoppix, and (b) the model number and cpu details here. Does all hardware work? Did you need cheatcodes etc?
I'm having a hard time finding ones that I know will boot (given that store managers are often not happy about letting me try booting livecds). There is an astounding lack of information on the web concerning Knoppix on new laptops. :!:
My laptop works with it, although it's not exactly new... HP ze4125 1.4GHz Athlon XP 256MB (I upgraded to 512MB) 40GB. I have to use noscsi and acpi=off boot options for it to boot, but it works absolutely fine.
What stores are you going to? Did they actually tell you no? Remember, you are THEIR customer... just explain that you want to buy a laptop that will boot this linux CD, and that it does not change or do anything. If he says no, tell them that some other store will get your money then. Be firm with them, It's not like you're spending a few bucks, it's quite an investment! Oh, and the bigger the store, the less they will probably care what you do lol.
Edit: Opps forgot to mention the versions... 3.3 boots absolutely fine, 3.4 and 3.6 need the options. I'll have 3.7 to test very soon, I'm on dial up! :P
Thanks vm for your helpful reply Matrox. I'm not in the US & dealers here are more worried about voiding warranties etc. Some will not even turn laptops on because WinXP has to be registered on the first boot.
If the forum moderator is reading this: perhaps this thread could be made a sticky? www.linux-on-laptops.com just does not have enough information about newish models.
ThinkPad r50 apparently works http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14217
HP Pavillion ze4240 / Athlon moble XP CPUQuote:
Originally Posted by WoofDeF
Knoppix 3.1 booted fine. Everything worked (everything I tested anyway, sound was good, network worked immidately on boot through my router.) I did not test the built-in modem and had no expectation that it would work. I resized the NTFS partition to make space for a FAT partition on the disk (so I could write files to the disk). I did not install to disk.
I used it for about a month with no problems. One day I finally allowed XP to install the "security updates" that it had been nagging about. After that event I could no longer get on the network. The details of that are in this thread: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...er=asc&start=0
and this thread: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...er=asc&start=0
With either version 3.3 or 3.4 (sorry, I forget which) I suddenly could no longer boot (I would hang during the boot). I tried a lot of cheat codes but nothing worked. Old versions continued to boot properly. About 6 months later (not to say I put 6 months of work into this one thing) I finally found that a combination of two cheat codes, noscsi and acpi=off, would allow the system to work. I have had to use these codes ever since. By the way, these codes also get me past the NIC problem I mentioned above, so I no longer have to do the manual reset and netcardconfig that I explained in the above threads.
I have a Belkin 802.11b PCMCIA card (ver. 2101) and also a Dlink DWL-650 802.11b PCMCIA wireless card for the notebook. I have never gotten either to work with Knoppix or any live Linux CD. Again, I have not installed to hard drive and I am not trying to get the wrapper and such to work from a CD boot, but neither card seems to be supported by Knoppix. It would be nice if Knoppix, or at least some of the more hacker orriented live CD's would support either of these wireless cards, but I can live without it.
I run Kanotix (imho, a better version of Knoppix) on an IBM T40.
1.5 Gig Pentium M
Centrino Wireless- IPW2100
512 Ram
no cheats needed
works great!
I just last night loaded knoppix v3.6 to my 8500. Booting from CD works like a charm with no real problems (at least none that I've found, but it was just last night and I'm only getting back to it now).
The laptop is almost or is a year old, but it does have 512mb ram and a 40GB drive. It is a 2MHz P4. The one thing that does not really look good is the screen (on the laptop it's 15" wide) and the text and resolution aren't that great. Wireless card works great (that's how I'm getting here - via cable modem to a wireless adapter). USB works great, in fact, the CD was able to detect everything with no problems (I did boot as "no scsi" cuz I don't have any, so why look).
In that I'm new to these formus, I need to do some looking around, but my friends' Compaq (laptop) which is a couple of years old (1.2 Mhz P3, 512mb ram, 40GB drive, CDROM and DVD (separate devices)) did not boot from the CD (same one my Dell does boot from). It started but would hang very soon after that.
roofer
edit: I've loaded v3.7 today (Live CD). It too, works like a charm...
I have one problem with my laptop, it's an Acer 1705Sci P4 3Ghz, 512RAM, 120G HD, NVidia FX go 5600
Knoppix doesn't recognizes my graphic card, it's no problem to boot in my 1280x1024 resolution but when I play a movie
the picture's not so good, I'm searching for drivers now for this graphic card but havent found them yet, but I'm just using knoppix
for a week now.
hey y'all new to tha forum here, using knoppix 3.7 on a twinhead efio! 14a, AMD Athlon XP-M 2200. Booted up fine and since i know nutz about linux or knoppix, just discovering my way around. Just found a way to connect to the office network but strangely, the network printer dosen't show on the samba network neighbourhood.... but thats a topic for another area of the forum.... Cheers!
i am using a new hp nc8000 and knoppix 3.7. it runs swimingly.
I just setup a dual boot (XP Pro SP2 and Knoppix 3.7) on my:
B3 Intel Centrino 12.1" Slim BMobile.
(it's laptops that we sale, not some big manufacturer brand)
Intel M 1.6Ghz/2M Dothan uFCPGA2
Integrated 256MB uSODIMM DDR333
40GB
Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME video
CDRW/DVD
Intel 802.11bg PRO2100 (although device manager shows 2200)
Here is pictures in case you wanted to see it.
About 2lbs.
Blank screen. I had to use 'fb1024x768' to make it work - otherwise it just gave me a blank screen.
Works great. Although I did have an issue of installing Knoppix and lilo, then rebooting and having no lilo - it just went to XP. I just re did the process and now lilo works. Incase somebody googles for it: "After install no lilo just XP". - Just re-do it.
Also I cannot get the audio to work or the WiFi to work. I'm not really concered about the Wifi because I just ordered an Orinoco Classic Gold. The audio is a SoundMAX intergrated. Anybody know how to get that to work?
Contents deleted due to duplicate post. See my post below.
Knoppix 3.7 installed on HDD and LiveCD on Compaq Presario 1200 (1.2 GHz)
I use a PCMCIA 56k MODEM to avoid the pain of the on-board software MODEM.
**Preliminary Report**
Quick summary: v3.7 boots OK, no cheatcodes applied. No KDE toolbar in 1440x768 mode; 1024x768 OK. I'd call the installation a basic success. it was absolutely amazing to watch Knoppix detect everything and bring my laptop up as a functional Linux machine with no intervention required!
Laptop info:
P4, 3 GHz
1 GB RAM
Toshiba 80 GB, 5400 rpm HDD, formatted as one NTFS partition
nVidia GEForce Go 5200, 64 MB video RAM, 1440x990 17" screen
Realtek AC-97 sound chip
Alps touchpad
Pioneer K12D DVD/CD R/W
Atheros 802.11g wireless
I just received my Knoppix 3.7 CD yesterday, so I have only about two hours experience with the package. I fooled around with Linux in the kernel 0.95 days and haven't worked with Linux since, so I'd rate myself a Linux newbie, just about as new as can be.
Knoppix booted up to a 1024x768 KDE desktop, or into a 1440x900 desktop by including "screen=1440x900" command in the boot command. In 1440x900 mode, KDE didn't display a toolbar.
I need to follow up on this problem as I learn more about Linux in general, and Knoppix specifically.
1024x768 is fine, though, for preliminary testing.
Knoppix recognized my USB, Ethernet, and Firewire systems.. I didn't see any mention of wireless networking or (of course) the internal modem. It automatically found and activated the PCMCIA system and, of course, the CD-ROM drive. Sound output seems to work OK.
The biggest surprise was the Alps touchpad working right out of the box. I didn't expect that, at all. (It works as a normal 2-button mouse. The right-edge vertical scroll function doesn't work. No surprise there - it only recently became functional in XP with the latest - buggy - Alps XP driver. It will take the Linux world a while to catch up.)
I was able to successfully install Knoppix in the ramdisk, but haven't yet tested Knoppix' handling of the CD or DVD capabilities of this machine. Since there's not much RAM left for the system and no HDD write access, I suspect that I won't be able to do much with the drive unless I install Knoppix on the HDD. Likewise, I haven't actually connected anything to the USB, Firewire, Ethernet, or PCMCIA ports to see if they actually work.
I'll be happy to follow this up as I gain experience, if anyone is interested.
Thanks for these forums, and particularly, thanks to everyone involved in Knoppix' development. It's an amazing package!
Best Regards,
Tom
Seattle
Further info:
-- I can burn CD-R's just fine by loading Knoppix into the ramdisk with the toram switch at boot.
-- Starting Knoppix with the screen=1440x900 switch brings my machine up in the 1400x1050 mode, pushing the toolbar off the bottom of the KDE desktop screen.
-- I can't get Knoppix to recognize my USB flash drive.
Feb 16, 2005:
-- Installed Knoppix to the hard drive. It was very easy and goof-proof. For those struggling with CD/USB drive or poor man's HDD installations, go for the full HDD configuration. Your life will be much simpler.
-- The display is now working in 1440x900 using the new nVidia Linux driver "nvidia," found at http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html .
-- I've learned that the SmartLink driver, slmodem-2.9.10 ( http://www.smlink.com ), is supposed to drive this machine's winmodem.
Feb 17, 2005:
-- Verified that the CDROM works. No setup changes required.
-- The USB thumb drive is now recognized by hotplug after the HDD installation, and automounts as /mnt/sda1. However, I get no KDE desktop icon. Not a big problem...
Feb 19, 2005
-- Good news and bad news: The good news is that the modem is working. The bad news is that it's not working in Knoppix, but works just fine in Kanotix.
The only way I could get the modem to work was with the two Debian packages sl-modem-source-2.9.9a-i386.deb and sl-modem-daemon-2.9.9a-i386.deb under Kanotix. The .deb packages installed just fine under Knoppix, but KPPP didn't see the modem.
I'm sure I could sort out the problem if I knew a good deal more about Linux, but solving this problem is way over my head right now. I'm just happy that Kanotix got me on the air.
Well, that's it for this post. The machine is now, in my opinion, a functional XP/Linux machine. I'm happy, and I'll now go out and learn Linux.
Many thanks to the posters here on Knoppix forums, and those who have shared their experience on the net.. This machine would have been dead in the water without your advice!
Knoppix 3.7 boots on my HP ZE4560us laptop.
cheatcodes: knoppix26 fb1024x768
Specs:
AMD XP2500-M
512MB DDR RAM
Broadcom Integrated wireless
external HDD and Flash drives work with little configuration
More info at my thread devoted to getting this model working:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16917
Dell Inspiron 1100
P4 - 2.7ghz
Intel 82845GM Graphics Controller
256MB RAM
Using Knoppix 3.7 I can boot into X without any cheatcodes needed.
HOWEVER, If you use any (I assume unless they broke it in an update, don't particularly relish the task of flashing my bios with previous versions over and over again) bios revision prior to A32, it is impossible to get X to run in anything higher then 640x480 at 60hz, even with cheatcodes.
Now, at the startup, which was the same as before, when you pick whatever kernal with whatever cheat code, it says you've passed an invalid video number. Pressing space to skip choosing another one (with the A32) revision will boot into X, at 1024 x 768. Prior to the A32 revision when I tried to do that, X failed to load, unless I used scan at that menu.
If any other information is needed let me know :)
heh - edited to correct a typo I saw, I hate typos.
Edited: I'm a retard from Retardia. - Just noticed that in my bios the vid card was on 1mb, turning this to 8mb, fixes the undefined/invalid video number at startup. --though doesn't fix the prior to A32 640x480 bios problem :)
Hi everyone,
My Sony VAIO VGN-FS115Z boots successfully, although acpi=off is required.
The touchpad works.
USB does not work (my mouse, printer, scanner, modem are USB so I can't test them ATM).
No sound. The soundcard (Realtek AC'97) wasn't working in Win XP sp2 either until I installed drivers from realtek.com.
Also, I wish I could set screen size to 1200x800 (might want to use recent Nvidia drivers).
Olive, add the modelines below to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4Quote:
Originally Posted by Olive
You'll also need to add the 1280x800 resolution to the screens sections.Code:Modeline "1280x800" 68.56 1280 1336 1472 1664 800 801 804 824 -HSync +VSync
Modeline "1280x800" 80.58 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 827 -HSync -Vsync
That works 'good enough' on my HP Pavilion zv5270us
Regards,
--glenn
Hi all,
I have a hard drive install of Knoppix 3.7 on an hp zv5270us where everything important seems to work.
On board Realtek 10/100, nVidia 440 MX 64Meg, alps touchpad, dvd-rw should work, I just checked and there's a typo in menu.lst, sound works. It's plugging along at 800MHz, I'll have to get powernow! working. It works great in my Gentoo amd64 install in 'on-demand' mode.
The winmodem has no Linux driver, no great loss. The onboard Broadcom wireless works in Gentoo with the LinuxAnt driverloader, so I imagine it will work under Knoppix as well
Only one problem so far, the usb mouse locks up after a while and I'm reduced to the touchpad :(
I'll have to figure that one out... The touchpad is difficult compared to a real mouse.
Cheers,
--glenn
Thanks for the tip =)Quote:
Originally Posted by Psycho
I guess this requires hdd install though?
Got version 3.7 working by using the acpi=off switch...
Running 3.7 on a Dell Inspiron 9100, 2.8GHz, 1GB RAM, dualbooting w/XP &Knoppix is mach speed
I have an Alienware Area-51m laptop, which is about 2 years old now, but hardware wise its still up to date.
My specs:
2.66 GHz P4 (Desktop Processor)
64 MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 M9
60 GB HDD (7200 rpm)
512 MB of RAM
Realtek AC (forgot the exact model) sound card
Works great without cheats on Knoppix 3.7 but I've lost sound on Knoppix 3.8.1. Anyone know how to fix this, like a cheat code or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Works great "out of the box" on this 2004 Dell Inspiron 5100. I had no problems at all, with the exception of my Linksys Wpc54G wireless card(and I refuse to pay $20 for the win driver conversion) not being found. Other than that, everything functions beautifully.
2.8 ghz P4
512 mb
Ati Radeon 7500
SigmaTel C-Major
Knoppix 3.8 on HP Pavilion ze4140. No cheat codes needed.
Knoppix 3.9 on Acer Travelmate 230
And Suse 9.1 (9.2 Gnome failed), Linspire, Mandrake Move
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Acer Travelmate 230:
Pentium Celeron 1.7G
DDR RAM 128Mx2
HD 40G ( C,D,E,F,G, all NTFS)
24x CD
Detail on Acer website
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I burned CD and then boot from iso file on E(hda6) withou CD, just edit "boot.ini" as a lot manual says, what's need you mention is that you should download a new "initrd" file which support NTFS format (for my all NTFS partition, if FAT32, may not).
I am now trying to store configuration on my disk and make the sound card work, if anyone hnow how to, please tell my, THX!
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The "initrd" file url:
for version 3.8.1 and former: http://s119307663.onlinehome.us/grube.zip
for version 3.8.2 and 3.9 : http://s119307663.onlinehome.us/Knoppix382.zip
display doesnt work correct
see my forum post: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...38caa9852ef846
Gateway M275 running Version 3.9 great.
Tried 3.8.1, 3.8.2 and 3.9. They all work fine, both booting from CD or from HD install.
Laptop is:
Dell Inspiron 9100
bios revision A05
P4 3.0ghz HT (prescott i think)
512ram ddr
Radeon 9700 64mb
100gb HD
C-Sharp Audio
BroadCom 440x 10/100 Ethernet
Everything works fine in all versions. Successfully booted in native 1280x800 resolution using screen=1280x800.
Haven't tried wireless.
Knoppix 3.8.1 works on Toshiba A3-101 okay but:
1.No sound
2.Internal modem(as usual) not detected.
I used knoppix to make a new partition.No problem encountered,so far anyway.
I have top figure out how to resolve 1 & 2 above.
I’ve just posted my experience with Knoppix on a Toshiba Satellite M35X-S149:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20042
Most things work fine (including the 1280x800 wide screen!), with a few glitches.
I have a hp pavilion ze4500 I'm using knoppix 3.8.1 & 3.9.1 Both will boot and both will run, albeit with some glitches, I have an AMD Athlon 2400+ w/1024MB DDR SDRAM. It has booted best w/ the noacpi option. Be sure your disk is clean and that the download will pull up on a comparable desktop (so you know it works). I tried every version from 3.3 through 3.7 without success. It wasn't until the adition of the unionfs that I was finaly able to access the I-net. I did get 3.6 to boot and while I got 3.7 to boot it kept crashing no matter What I did. Like I suggested I did use 3.7 on the home desktop a hp pavilion 733n. If the salesperson isn't willing to let you boot a live CD standing beside you (he might learn something) then you really don't need to purchase from them. There ARE other sources to purchase, especially when they know that the ability of the equiptment to load your disk is a purchase point.
I wish you good luck and I have heard that some of the intel chip/cpu's will not run Knoppix/linux uner any conditions.
Captain Cautious
07.20.05
Hi I am runnig knoppix on a Fijitsu-Siemens Amilo k7600 and works fine with knoppix, used versions are 3.4 till 3.9 and all the hw works execpt the build in 56 Winmodem.
I know this is somewhat incoplete but I hope it is useful. I used Knoppix 3.8 with each machine. I didn't get the exact compaq model as the section manager, well read on-
I recently started the process of evaluating laptops for replaement of four next year. I did NOT evaluae HP as I already know that they tend to configure their hardware so that it works with Knoppix/Linux only with some serious reconfiguration and workarounds unless they set the machine up for their proprietary Linux.
I went to Best Buy who is the largest supplier in the area. Forst I looked at whatwas available. I limited the systems to the following base requirements. AMD cpu with 32 or 64 bit processor, 256-512 ram prefferably DDR or SDram
Toshiba 10721 - 360J series with Intel Celeron will not load, Knoppix hangs before hardware detection.
Gateway7510GX 64bit SCSI
Had to noscsi, noacpi. Bios overrides noacpi and will not load apm. Loading is very slow but it does function. The right click function won't work on the touchpad but does work with external mouse. many small glitches.
Compaq 64bit AMD
Clean load. Pointer and tap sensitivity needs to be decreased significantly and the keyboard accelerator needs to be at or near minimum. The capslock is reversed and will not clear. TO do standard you need to hit the shift key.
At this point I was preparing to do some program testing when the department manager came up to me and even knowing I was looking at replacing potentially 4 laptops he told me that I couldn't use the knoppix disk. His rational was that if we let one person do it we have to let everyone do it. He wasn't flexible nor did the concept of watching to insure the disk the potential purchaser uses isn't toxic or loads running programs.
He got a little pissy then and I told him that if I wanted to mess up his laptops, I didn't need the Knoppix disk to do it. I was asked to leave the store. I let the store manager know abut the potential sale he lost the store and she was pretty red faced when I walked out.
Incidently I posted this to the general laptop forum by mistake. hope it doesn't cause too much confusion. :)
By My Hand ~ I Remain,
Captain Cautious 2 Aug 05
I have been using Knoppix v 3.9 on my new Gateway 6810GZ laptop. It's a Centrino chipset with a Pentium M 1.7GHZ, 512 MB Ram, 60GB HD, Intel Graphics, etc...
The Conexant sound is not detected and my efforts to get it to work has been unsuccessful. I was able to get the wireless to work only after changing out routers.
This laptop is a variation of their M360 and it is only available at Best Buy....but I got it for 899 with no rebates.
Hi,
I have tried three notebooks so far and the results are as follows:
Dell Latitude CP-R 400 PII 256 Meg. Runs 3.4 and 3.6 without cheat codes.
Sony PCG-FR130 AMD Athlon 2000 M with 512 Meg Ram. Runs 3.4, 3.6, 3.8.2, 3.9, and the LinuxTag 4.0 DVD. ALL without cheatcodes. The only real issue I encountered was with DVD-R Media. The DVD Drive apparently does not read ANY DVD-R media reliably. It prefers DVD+R media and worked without any issues once I burned +R copy of DVD. A firmware update did nothing to correct this, but it did improve the CD writing slightly.
Compaq R3XXX Series, AMD Athlon 2800M, 512 Meg Ram. Runs 3.9 without cheatcodes. Will be trying 4.0 DVD sometime soon. Sorry, this is my girlfriends machine and I do not know the exact model number since she is not here right now and neither is the notebook. I just get to back it up and fix it if it breaks, just like her other PCs, Heating and Air Conditioning, Electrical Wiring, Light Fixtures, and her car, and the rest of her house and......... Just kidding, She is not quite THAT bad.
These units do not have wireless network cards and I do not use or test the modems. Displays are acceptable and sound works on all. Internal Network Cards and PCMCIA network card in the Dell worked without issues. I do not really put Knoppix through the paces and a more experienced user might notice something amiss. All seemed to be running ok and temperatures seemed normal. (I have a digital infrared thermometer and informally compared temps unders Windows and Knoppix and saw little difference.) Printing was OK once I figured out how to configure various units. 3.9 seemed more reliable for printing with some HP printers, but it may just be my imagination.
USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 apparently worked on these units as equipped. The Sony and the Compaq are equipped with IEEE-1394 and apparently worked. I did not try burning disks or large file transfers on external devices, but the limited trial was successful and both external drives I tried were recognized in most Knoppix Versions as I can recall. I did not connect any Camcorders or Digital cameras, so I cannot report on that.
I will probably have a few more Laptops to try over the next few months, but I am limited to These few and MANY Big White Boxes for now.
Hi there,
I use boot options 'nohwaccel acpi=off'
Knoppix runs without problems.
Only thing is, my usb stick is not recognized automatically.
Bastian
I've got keyboard problems with Knoppix V3.8.1 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook. The boot prompt is the last point where the keyboard works, during boot process or in a console nothing happened if I pressed a key. In the Bugs wiki it's reported exactly. I hope the bug will be corrected in newer versions of Knoppix.
Pentium M (Dothan)
2000 MHz
Intel 915PM Express
2048 MB DDR2 SDRAM
Tested Knoppix 3.9 CD and 4.0 DVD with success. With persistent image in USB device. But only basic
funtions : Internet,sound,video,etc. Not tested Print,wireless...
Only not detected the sound volume device.
J.
Downloading the 9/23/2005 4.0.2 DVD now, I'll post after I get it burned and running.
Sony VAIO VGN-A190, 735 P-M Dothan 1.7GHZ, ATI Radeon 9700, 1920x1200 native resolution screen, 80GB HDD, Intel PRO Wireless 2200BG...
Looking forward to this! 8)
EDIT: So far, so good! Wireless is working fine, USB mouse is working fine(through docking station no less). :)
Looking good!
I doubt that the TV tuner will work... ah well.