3.3 not booting with G200

[JonPhred]

Newly acquired Knoppix 3.3 2003-09-24-BETA tells me it's failed to find an X-Server for my card (after flashing the screen of the Belinea 10 30 70 monitor and retrying with vesa and fbdev) and I just end up with a monochrome 'weave' background and a diagonal cross cursor.

Card is an old AGP Matrox Mystique G200 with 8MB and reported by Win2K as having 250MHz DAC with MGA-G200 B8 R1 chipset. It's sitting in a Gigabyte GA-5AX with K6-2/400 and 384MB.

I've also tried cheat-codes of "noagp" and "xserver=XF86_SVGA xmodule=mga vga=normal screen=1024x768 xvrefresh=75" but without success.

Any clues for this newbie would be very welcome (and how do I get to see output of any boot diagnostics, anyway?).

[Stephen]

Newly acquired Knoppix 3.3 2003-09-24-BETA tells me it's failed to find an X-Server for my card (after flashing the screen of the Belinea 10 30 70 monitor and retrying with vesa and fbdev) and I just end up with a monochrome 'weave' background and a diagonal cross cursor.

Card is an old AGP Matrox Mystique G200 with 8MB and reported by Win2K as having 250MHz DAC with MGA-G200 B8 R1 chipset. It's sitting in a Gigabyte GA-5AX with K6-2/400 and 384MB.

I've also tried cheat-codes of "noagp" and "xserver=XF86_SVGA xmodule=mga vga=normal screen=1024x768 xvrefresh=75" but without success.

Any clues for this newbie would be very welcome (and how do I get to see output of any boot diagnostics, anyway?).

You could try using the frame buffer with fb1024x768 at the boot: prompt you use this instead of knoppix at the start of the line and you can use additional cheat codes with it you may also have to use xmodule=fbdev and there is always the expert option and use your settings for the monitor and card.

[JonPhred]

Great! fb1024x768 did the trick. Thanks for the suggestion.

I notice that the card had mistakenly been identified as a Millenium G200 with 4MB rather than a Mystique G200 with 8MB. Interesting that it made a positive ID but, having got it wrong, then failed to find an appropriate X-Server.

Cheers!