Hello ... maybe you folks can help me out on this one.

I am unable to get Knoppix to boot properly on my PC. During the botup, the Penguin does not appear, and I get a message saying I have passed an invalid mode, and it gives a list of six resolutions ... when I choose one, it will go through the loading process, then when X starts, the screen goes into a weird pattern of colours.

My PC is a Micron PC Millenia ... Intel Pentium III processor ... 734 Mhz, 512 MB ram ... I have had to boot using the acpi=force cheatcode because the BIOS is from 2000. I also have had to use the noscsi cheatcode, because otherwise knoppix hangs while reading the scsi devices. i have also tried using the vga=normal cheatcode, which stops the invalid mode passing ... but the results are no different.

I think the problem may be with my video card ... Device Manager on Windows says that it is a Intel(R) 82810E Graphics Controller. The video card seems to want to use someting called VESA VGA.

Any ideas? Help would be most appreciated.