Well don't be too hasty. With XFree86 4.3.0 which comes standard with the
Slackware 9.0 distribution, the Savage driver works perfectly as does the
fbdev driver. It is just Knopix that I am having trouble with. I see from the
XFree86.0.log, that it is also 4.3.0 but a Debian version (Debian 4.3.0-0ds4)
which might be causing a problem with an old savage driver.

I should point out that I also run another dual booting computer with Win2K and
Slackware 9.0 with a Matrox video card onboard and Knoppix works just fine
there.

I haven't tried fbdev since it didn't seem to work before (see above). However,
it is always a fallback that seems to work with any system when a specific
driver will not work. I know it worked in Slackware 9.0 since I used it before
attempting to use the savage driver.

I'll try your suggestions.