Gateway and Knoppix

[djm]

I have a Gateway that seems to load Knoppix just fine until its time for "X". Then it just hangs with a blank screen. I tried the "failsafe" option and it loaded KDE but I could not use the mouse. I had a cursor in the middle of the screen, but nothing moved.



Pentium 4 1.8 ghz
256 MB Ram
NVidia GeForce2 MX400
Gateway FPD1510 (flat panel) monitor
HID-compliant wheelmouse (USB optical) by Logitech

[Loper]

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I have a Gateway that seems to load Knoppix just fine until its time for "X".
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It's likely that the default video mode is incompatible with the LC display. This is one of the drawbacks of LCDs. Try "forcing" the display to a resolution and refresh rate that the monitor likes. This should be documented either in your system literature or on the Gateway site itself.

[djm]

I passed the following cheat codes and I'm up and running.

knoppix xmodule=vesa wheelmouse

Hey it even configured my ehternet card and I'm sending this from inside Konquerer.....nifty distro!