Quote Originally Posted by BrittBS
I've got a pretty old Compaq Aramda 1598DMT, and Knoppix works perfectly except:When in xfree, everything is extremely pixelated (fonts/icons/background/etc).
It would appear that the resolution that X/KDE is starting up in is not the native resolution for your machine. One of the drawbacks to an LC display is that it has a fixed resolution; anything displayed in any other resolution will look blocky or pixelated because the image is not mapped to the display. An example would be a 800 x 600 pixel desktop displayed on a 1024 x 768 LCD; some of the desktop pixels would map to multiple pixels on the physical display, causing text (for example) to look very strange.

You may want to try some of the cheat-codes. They are documented here -- I don't have a laptop to test them -- maybe someone else can leap in. Look at your documentation to find the native resolution of your LCD.