Hi

Seasons greeting to you all. thanks for the reply. I managed to get knoppix running, making this post from the knoppix system, Snakfinder, the fb mode didnt work, as always it loaded two files then gave me a permenant blank screen. i tired knopix26, and it got thru detecting everything until finally it said X11 load failed. it said that could not load apm or something and gave a path, er i cant understand what i wrote down, but it went something like /lib/name/name/2.6.9/arch/apm/i386/somefilename then said file not found.ALso it treid X11, then Xfree86(vesa) then Xfree86(fbdev), in this the fbdev mode i got a grey screen with an x for the mouse pointer. then i did the expert26, and it detected my card correctly .. Note i put it wrong before its a Radeon Mobility 320M, and it said only vesa supported on Xfree86(vesa), then it failed again giving the same error as before and then loaded up on Xfree86(fbdev) i think. i dunno if its up correctly ans the colours seem a bit wierd, but that might be becuase of the display mode i am using.

Anup