I am using Knoppix 3.2-2000-04-15-EN on a CD. I verified the md5 checksums of the ISO image before burning the CD. I have two computers at work and have tried Knoppix on both of them. One works great but the other is having some problems.

My problem computer is a HP Vectra VL800 DT which is running MS Windows 2000 Pro (service pack 3) and has a ViewSonic VG181 LCD monitor (native resolution 1280x1024) with an ATI Fire GL2 video adapter (chip type: IBM RC1000 256-bit / IBM GT1000). The Vectra was set up with the FAT32 file system and a floppy drive.

The two problems I have running Knoppix from a CD on my Vectra are:
1) My SCSI hard drive (Quantum Atlas10K2-TY184L, FAT32 file system) is not automatically mounted in KDE -- I'm not sure if it is even getting recognized by Knoppix, and
2) The only way I have been able to get KDE to appear is to use the following cheat codes knoppix xserver=XF86_SVGA vga=normal. Otherwise, I get the message
You passed an undefined mode number.
The screen then blanks out a few times and I end up with Linux in text mode and another error message
No suitable x-server found for your card.
Unfortunately, when KDE does comes up using the cheat codes knoppix xserver=XF86_SVGA vga=normal everything is grainy and HUGE. When I go into the KDE Control Center --> Peripherals --> Display, the screen resolution is listed as 640x480/75Hz, Color Depth: 8. But when I click on "Screen" to change the settings, another window appears showing the Resolution as 1600x1200/60Hz, Color Depth: 24, and Virtual desktop: Not used. When I change and save the settings to be what I want them to be, I get a message saying that the new configuration was successfully saved and that I will have to restart my session for the changes to take effect. But I haven't found a successful way to do this.

Saving my configuration to a floppy disk at this point and rebooting with the cheat code knoppix floppyconfig doesn't give me the new screen settings; Adding one of the screen size cheat codes doesn't help; and Using Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console and then entering init 2 and after KDE closes out using init 5 to reopen KDE doesn't get KDE to use the new configuration either.

Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can resolve these problems? Thanks in advance for any help.