Help! My display won't change from 600 X 800!

[juniorknopper]

Hi,

On both my hard drive and my bootable cd, I can't change my display from 600 X 800. When I go to display settings, there is only one option.

Can anyone help me?

juniorknopper

[ndb]

Assuming you downloaded an .iso, there should have been a file, knoppix-cheatcodes.txt.

When you boot up knoppix, you have an opportunity to enter these cheatcodes. As I recall, you should see

boot:

Try knoppix vga=normal screen=1024x768 or screen=1280x1024

Let people know if it works for you. Myself, my eyesight is poor enough I need 800x600.

[antoni_NT]

I've tried to use the cheatcodes by adding line

knoppix vga=normal screen=1024x768 or screen=1280x1024

at boot option but it didn't and never work.
Help me please.

[ndb]

I'm not sure about this, but you didn't type the whole cheat as

knoppix vga=normal screen=1024x768 or screen=1280x1024

did you? I meant that the screen cheat could be either 1024x768 or 1280x1024, not both. This could be insufficient caffeine on my part.

Try: knoppix vga=normal screen=1024x768. If that doesn't look right, try knoppix vga=normal screen=1280x1024

Let me know if either works.

[juniorknopper]

Whoops! I tried knoppix vga=1024x768 and knoppix screen=1024x768, but I guess that's wrong.

I'll try it.

juniorknopper

[antoni_NT]

I'm sorry for writing

knoppix vga=normal screen=1024x768 or screen=1280x1024

I wrote

knoppix vga=normal screen=1024x768

on boot option. I'm using crt monitor that only works on resolution lower than 1152X768, because it is the highest resolution when I use it on Windows Platform.
Is there any possibility for unsupported vga card?
I'm using nVidia Ge Force MX 440.

I ever tried run Knoppix on an onboard based vga and it can play knoppix at 1024x768. It's not fear! I can't get enough space.

[juniorknopper]

I wrote

knoppix vga=normal screen=1024x768

I tried it, and it didn't work. Maybe 1280x1024 will work.


juniorknopper

[juniorknopper]

I forgot to mention something...

on my hard drive the boot screen doesn't come up, so I am entering cheatcodes into the terminal.

will that work

[juniorknopper]

to get a boot screen, maybe I should reinstall knoppix and not enter anything in the user/password field, because instead of a boot screen, I get a user/password field instead of the

boot:

will that work?

juniorknopper

[Harry Kuhman]

on my hard drive the boot screen doesn't come up, so I am entering cheatcodes into the terminal.
will that work

No, installing Knoppix to a hard drive will not work, as you are learning.