2 questions Wireless Card and Widescreen

[Dexter]

My first question is I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro P23-S509.

It has a 17" Widescreen monitor and the only options I have for screen resolution is like 1024x768. I believe my laptops like max resolution is 1440x900 or something like that. How on earth do I configure that? I am somewhat new to Linux but getting better at it.

Also this laptop has a built in wireless card but I'm not sure if it is detecting it or if I'm going to have to configure everything manually if that is at even all possible. Any directions you guys cuold give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced as I LOVE THIS OS but need some help setting her up

[robwelch100]

I think at the boot prompt you should be able to enter: knoppix vesa, (resolution desired). I do not know that the resolution you desire is possible though with the standard vesa driver. If you know the video chipset you may be able to specify it instead of vesa. You should be able to go to /etc/sysconfig/xserver and view what driver is used. Again if you have vesa you may not get the resolution you want, I simply don't know its limitation. If you have a driver that is for the chipset or one from the same company you can edit your /etc/x11/xf86config file and under the section labeled under "standard server" you wil find resolutions listed. Add the resolution you want to the front of the list. Save the file and restart, if it can't do the resolution it will move on to the next in the list automaticaly.

As for the wlan card I have had no luck with them. if the Knoppix wlan tool on the knoppix menu item does not recognize the card you may be screwed unless you can find someone with the same card and linux hack knowhow to assist you. Otherwise there are tools out there for loading windows drivers in linux and they work, so I'm told. The only problem is that they require kernel 2.4.2 or lower to run. I couldn't get ndiswrpper or linuxant driver loader to work on mine and I figured that it was the kernel.

I wish you luck on your issues.

[Dexter]

I have a hard drive installation of this I'm not sure as how to get to the root I'm guessing. I've tried editing that file and it says I can not. I know a couple programs I've tried to open asking for the root password.

When starting up my laptop I get 3 choices linux, linkux 2.6 and linux 2.7 these are guess on numbers but I always choose the last one. Is there actually a way to have it not display this screen and load a kernal. LoL sorry for the questions but I'm new to lnux a little still but I love it an can't wait till I know it

[aay]

I have a hard drive installation of this I'm not sure as how to get to the root I'm guessing. I've tried editing that file and it says I can not. I know a couple programs I've tried to open asking for the root password.

When starting up my laptop I get 3 choices linux, linkux 2.6 and linux 2.7 these are guess on numbers but I always choose the last one. Is there actually a way to have it not display this screen and load a kernal. LoL sorry for the questions but I'm new to lnux a little still but I love it an can't wait till I know it

When you installed you should have been asked for a root password. So this is the one to use if apps ask for it. If you want to become root from the command line just do this: /bin/su and then you will be asked for your password.

You get an entry for 2.7? I think you mean 2.4 and 2.6. There are no 2.7 kernels yet afaik.

[j.drake]

There are no 2.7 kernels yet afaik.

IIRC, I read that 2.7 was released a month or two ago to patch a vulnerability. It came out since the last release of Knoppix.

jd