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