Text Problems in 7.02_EN DVD/Compiz

[Capricorny]

Maybe some hints from Klaus K re nvidia on the debian-knoppix mailing list could be of interest:

Especially NVidia chipsets are problematic. Some cards work extremely
well with the free nouveau graphics drivers, while others just cause
freezes or halt the system as soon as graphics should start up. Youd
card may be such a problem case. They are rare, though, because I did my
best to blacklist cards which are known not to work, for which the vesa
of framebuffer drivers are used again.
You could try:
knoppix xmodule=fbdev
(Card-specific framebuffer more, only the detected best resolution is supported).
fb1280x1024
(Caution: NO Knoppix at the beginning! This is the generic vesa framebuffer mode
in 1280x1024. If you like 1024x768 better, use fb1024x768 )
knoppix nocomposite no3d
(Just removes composite and 3D capabilities and use a flat 2D desktop, sometimes
a good intermediate solution which is still accelerated and allows resolution
switching)
knoppix nomodeset (or nodrm)
(Disables the accellerated modes, but most drivers won't work then and
the system will end up using vesa).

As I think many could be affected, fine if you report what you find out about solutions/lack of such

[Ferric.AU]

Maybe some hints from Klaus K re nvidia on the debian-knoppix mailing list could be of interest:



As I think many could be affected, fine if you report what you find out about solutions/lack of such

Thank-you I wasn't aware of this post by Klaus.

For me the problem seems to be only with text and matches the screenshot from this bug report, rather than a wider nvidia card issue.

In fact, I was mistaken in my last post (forgot to restart Xserver) and reverting to libcairo2_1.10 DOES seem to fix the issue.

1. download the appropriate .deb for libcairo2_1.10.2-7
   from here (ie for i386 http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/d...0.2-7_i386.deb)
2. sudo dpkg -i <the package>.deb
3. sudo service knoppix-startx stop (stops Xserver and reverts to root at prompt)
4. service knoppix-startx start

The downgrade breaks another package (libgtk2.0-cil), but otherwise seems fine after 1hr+ using iceweasel.

Good luck,

Brad

[BrokenTusk]

In fact, I was mistaken in my last post (forgot to restart Xserver) and reverting to libcairo2_1.10 DOES seem to fix the issue.

1. download the appropriate .deb for libcairo2_1.10.2-7
   from here (ie for i386 http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/d...0.2-7_i386.deb)
2. sudo dpkg -i <the package>.deb
3. sudo service knoppix-startx stop (stops Xserver and reverts to root at prompt)
4. service knoppix-startx start

The downgrade breaks another package (libgtk2.0-cil), but otherwise seems fine after 1hr+ using iceweasel.

Good luck,

Brad

This did it for me too. I'm living with the single broken package and have not yet stumbled on a bug.