I am actually now running Knoppix from VM with a windows host...

Virtualbox says I can't use full screen unless the display setting is set to 32 bit on the guest OS?

I can't find fbdev on xorg.0.log.... so i guess i can't change it...

oh well... knoppix still runs all the machines i need to to run on... (except for the VM) so i am still a happy camper