Hello,I do need help,sort of.

Seems that Knoppix-Adriane with LXDE desktop is :

1-not recognizing my video card-I can only boot in 800x600 rez

2-Also I had to disable the ATI RAdeon chipset on the motherboad otherwise I would t jus gett a black screen with a blinking white cursor..

3-And I had to disable my Firewire port as it was not recognizing my gigabit ethernet port..-it was insisting on using the Firewire port !

4-sometimes the DVD-R SCSI drive does not recognized my Live Knoppix CD

5-And the HD-(SATA-Raptor) -Knoppix sees it seeing it as a RAID device and wants to format it accordingly

6-the PXE Rom-had to put it to Int19

Now the good news-thus distro is the only only hat works with that darn pc !got it cheap at a local pawnship-thus beware-it wasused as a server at a local Net gaming shop I believe)

I have tried next tto all the other Linux distros and eithert I can't cnect to the net(ubuntu .KDE v 8.10 intrepid-Ibex) or my monitor just tuns off(debian 5.0,etc..)
Open Suse Linux v11.1 insist on formatting my HD RAid style no matter what..

Artistx v 0.4 does work but based on older version of Debian(v 4.)but when you try to upgrde certian packages like Firefox etc,,no can do etc.

..Studio64 has same prolems;Ubuntu Studio I can only get 640x480 monitor rez so next toimpossible to navigate the net..

Musix v 1.0R also based on older version of debian and monitor rez problems..

The Linux "music versions" all used a limited Gnome version..Been trying to convince those into music to go Linux but theya ll seem to be stuck on Windows no matter what..

Finally how to I tell ADRIANE to shut up ?The man's voice is driving me crazy..
Where in Knoppix(using Synaptic)is the pkg I can delete to remedy tis..

Do not get me wrong Adriane-LXDE is very good and FAST !
A few minoir points

-No PPPOE(DSL) connections on the opening menu only ISDN..

-Also 1st item ought to be the NET connection

-VLC-VideoLan- seems knoppix will not take it..;as well as GIMP...

-Force quit apps to kill a frozen program ?(on some Linux versions you click the said application with a skull..)


And yes a multimedia knoppix is needed as Debian Multimedia is rather spartan
Note using Adriane on 800X600 rez (only have 1 pc-the other kaput but next week will remedy this)

Tidbits-I have reformatted my HD using Adriane Knoppix over + 10 times now as seems that putting too much multimedia programs tend to freeze, make knoppix unstable and too many conflicts do arise and you cannot remove said pkgs !