I'd like to report my experience of knoppix 5.1.1 DVD(32bit) on dell vostro 1000(AMD 64 dual core, 2 G memory, ATI Express 1150 card, Dell mini wireless card). I copy all the stuff onto my harddriver and boot via grub. Every thing looks very well!!! Wireless connection is very reliablel with ndiswrapper and and broadcom driver.

The beryl windows manager refuses to start, reporting "without AIGLX support". Then I tried "XGL" model. I installed unbuntu's xserver-xgl package. The XGL starts OK, but when I start beryl and xterm, I only saw a white window against blue background. Beryl reports: "can't redirect <some numbers> to texture".

ATI claims the ATI Express 1150 has full OpenGL 2.0 support. So I guess the problem might be the driver, not the hardware. So I went to AMD's website to download ATI's proprietary driver(the 200 driver). I did several things to get the installer to run:

(1) rename the *.run.bin to *.run
(2) comment out the "rm temporary dir" line in the installer.sh
(3) invoke ati-installer.sh in the temporary dir with "ati-installer.sh <driver version number> --install".

The installer runs. But it says my /root directory only has 3M free space.(it needs 15M). I think that is natural for all knoppix right? I already have knoppix persistent image enabled(on which there are more than 150M free space). So if the installer ignores the disk space, it should be able to copy all required drivers onto the system.

As a last resort, I tried the "package" option. The installer made an redhat 5 rpm package for me.(it only needs 1M). Then I install the rpm package and initialize the xorg.conf file. X restarts. But later when I invoked "dpkg" to install XGL, i got segmentation fault. I suspect it's because of the new display driver because dpkg used to work pretty well. (the error is a memory null pointer from create_new_inode).

This is so far I can get,guys. Hopefully Knoppix 5.2 will be better.