Hi again

Got k3.7 to work with the following cheat:

knoppix screen=1280x1024

Seems that the acpi=off didn't kill everything until I included noapm; that didn't fix it, so I tried knoppix-v3.1 and it booted X just fine, but with sound etc. errors. No surprise there. Couldn't find my 3.2 and 3.3, think I gave them all away over the days...

Next I tried to change display resolutions/sync rates. It turns out that the Compaq 7500 display shuts off if ANY sync probe goes out of range, halting the boot process. So the trick was to either force a res/sync or pick a res which is automatically probed within range. Since 1280x1024 gives me all the pixels, I'll stop there. Thus, the above cheat boots up just fine (except for a little left-shift) and another XP-user now has a knoppix box!

Next I'll give them a poor-man's iso install, add a persistent home directory, and see if I can make Klik work on it. All executing on a NTFS partition. Thank you Scribus, and all.

snarkfinder