Knoppix 3.3 freezes when KDE initializes hardware

**donalbain** · 10-13-2003, 01:06 AM

Hi!

Knoppix 3.3 freezes completely while starting KDE. The mouse stops while ksplash says it's initializing the hardware (3rd icon blinking). It's exactly the same when I start Knoppix 3.3 from harddisc.

What can I do about it?
Donalbain

**Stephen** · 10-13-2003, 02:12 AM

Originally Posted by donalbain

Hi!

Knoppix 3.3 freezes completely while starting KDE. The mouse stops while ksplash says it's initializing the hardware (3rd icon blinking). It's exactly the same when I start Knoppix 3.3 from harddisc.

What can I do about it?
Donalbain

Give use some details on your hardware and we might be able to help. When booting from the CD did you use any cheat codes?

**donalbain** · 10-13-2003, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by Stephen

Originally Posted by donalbain

Hi!

Knoppix 3.3 freezes completely while starting KDE. The mouse stops while ksplash says it's initializing the hardware (3rd icon blinking). It's exactly the same when I start Knoppix 3.3 from harddisc.

What can I do about it?
Donalbain

Give use some details on your hardware and we might be able to help.

Its a normal PC, it runs SuSE-Linux and KDE with no problems. (AthlonXP-2000, Asus-a7n-266, 768MB DDR, GeForce2mx-200, Reaktek 8139 NIC, optical Logitec USB Mouse, bttv-Card (no name), Pioneer DVD, Aopen CD-R, DawiControl SCSI-Adapter...)

When booting from the CD did you use any cheat codes?

I gave acpi=off and noapic a try to solve the problem, but not more.

Donalbain.

**Stephen** · 10-13-2003, 07:44 PM

Try knoppix xmodule=nv xvrefresh=60 noscsi for the cheat codes you may want to thrown in a few more of the no options as well and you should try just failsafe alone to boot with minimal hardware detection or knoppix 2 to boot too the terminal.