Quote Originally Posted by coltrane
Just a quick note about my success so far with Knoppix 3.3 on Acer Travelmate 230XC.

After changing the default allocation of memory for the video (in BIOS) from 1MB to 8 MB, it boots cleanly, no cheatcodes necessary, to 1024x768 resolution.

With these two exceptions, everything else works

Realtek 8139 NIC not working (although it seems to know it is there)
i810 sound is detected, but fails to load (similar problems with alsa as well)
Update: realtec 8139 NIC works fine if I add the 'noapic' cheatcode when booting