Hi, I am very impressed with Knoppix and was extremely surprised that it was able to correctly configure the SPDIF out on my Audigy 2 sound card. (Well all I had to do was type alsa at the boot prompt).

It is just a shame there wasn't a similar option to configure my ATI 9800 Pro video card. (I mean really there are only two players that count for video acceleration and that is Nvidia and ATI, so you wouldn't think including the correct drivers would be such a hard thing to do).

Well anyway, I was wondering if I did a hard disk install, would I be able to have the same great hardware detection set up by default the way it is on the CD? Specifically would it be a very complicated task to have Knoppix automatically configure SPDIF out for me? I'm afraid I don't have any conventional speaker cable. How would I do this without having to specify that Knoppix should use the alsa driver at the boot prompt?

Also, how hard is it, what do I have to do to install the latest ATI video drivers? In most other distributions I tried (except Gentoo) doing this was a real pain - and I never quite managed to do it. Having SPDIF sound and accelerated video working would be something of a first in Linux for me.

Any input anyone can offer is very welcome.

GJ