Welcome to Knoppix, ant,
Quote Originally Posted by ant
I am having problems booting up my new KNOPPIX v5.01/5.0.1 burned CD. I get all the way to the part where it will start X (it did detect my old ATI Radeon 9700 card), but it hangs in blackness.
Sounds like Knoppix is picking the wrong video driver.

Some questions:
- Have you looked at the Tips&Tricks section of the Cheatcodes page? If not, start there, especially try the third boot command.
- If yes, what boot options did you try and how far did you get in the boot process?
- Are you getting any error messages and, if yes, what exactly do they say?

Please post back letting us know how things go.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org