Heres the type of monitor I am using http://www.aocdisplay.com/envision/manuals/EN-7410e.pdf


Heres my results.

On bios and intill I hit knoppix my screen runs at 640x 480 @60hz

boot:knoppix 2 -- ran at 1280 x 1024 @75hz
vga=normal -- ran at 720 x 400 @70hz then after the setup, on the black screen it ran at 1280 x 1024 @75hz

For the Start X results - from what I could make out considering it gives me about 3-4secs till it continues on.

-11 instead of requested priority -10

All these suggestions still was not able to get me to the linux desktop/graphics mode.
At the moment I'm going to try the 'expert mode' and perhaps looking in cheats for forced monitor resolutions like Harry suggested.