I've been thinking of changing my operating system for a long time. Knoppix offered me the oportunity to see if this idea can be realised. I don't know much about Linux, there are therefore plenty of problems I encountered. I would appreciate any suggestions.

1) Naming a file with unicode characters causes question marks appear instead of letters.

2) Knoppix does recognize my TV Tuner (which is WinFast TV2000 XP) as well as audio card (Creative SB Audigy), but not fully. None of the multiple audio card inputs seem to be working. I cannot record sound, not to mention the TV tuner sounds. This is the problem I am most confused about. Any help would be extremely appreciated.

3) How do you install programmes? It should be three command lines in Terminal:

./configure
make
make install

The first and the second cause no problems. The third command produces multiple

make[4]: Entering directory `xxx'
make[4]: Für das Ziel »all« ist nichts zu tun.

lines (I don't know, maybe it's normal) and finally

make[2]: Leaving directory `xxx'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `xxx'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

(Sorry, I have Knoppix in German)
I tried already five different programmes, all of them produce the same error. Any advices?

4) Full Screen option doesn't work as it should. Instead of showing the full image, it gives colourful skew lines across the entire screen.

5) Where is the MIDI synthesizer? How do I install Windows Media plugin for Mozilla?

6) How do I write in japanese? I don't even know what to look for.

Thanks in advance for helping.