Following the advice of a friend, I have had some success in NetBSD - the system boots into X. However, the screen size (1024x600) is not "appreciated" by the video driver, and it uses 168 lines of pixels that do not exist, making KDE "interesting".

However, that is besides the point.

What is of interest is the fact that some readily-available BSD derivative does (at least partially) understand the hardware - sufficiently at least to allow the system to boot without a kernel panic. Accordingly, it may be possible that I can derive some information that may help get Knoppix running.

Does anyone know enough about both BSD and Knoppix to be able to walk me through how to discover what I need in order to "assist" Knoppix in booting?