Quote Originally Posted by UnderScore
Ever installed Windows 2000 or Windows XP from CD?
Yes

Quote Originally Posted by UnderScore
A Windows XP install CD does not include the latest Nvidia video drivers. It only includes a baseline generic nvidia driver and if you want the added performance & features, you must download & install the nvidia driver. Knoppix works almost the same way. It is using a generic video driver and you are not getting the performance you would normally see if it was using the nvidia driver.
Still, wouldn't expect quite such poor performance.

Quote Originally Posted by UnderScore
If you want the nvidia driver then you must not use Knoppix as it is designed to be a Live-CD/DVD and not a hard drive installable Linux distro[/url]. You can try Suse 10.0 or Ubuntu 5.10 as they are both easy to use and have a large community of people to help you out.
Was running knoppix off live dvd.

Still haven't decided what distro to have a go at installing. That's a post for another day.

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Forgot to say thanks!........

Thanks