Quote Originally Posted by Shaba1
Imagine my surprise when KDE desktop came up on my laptop.

1)Is this normal?

2)Will it take 30-45 mintutes to boot every time I use the cd, as it did this time?
Dude! I think you might have a world record! Getting KDE to run w/ only 64M is definitely an accomplishment. You might try creating a linux swap partition if possible. Also try using a lighter desktop like flux. Just tell Knoppix at the boot: knoppix lang=us desktop=fluxbox

3) Can someone tell me how I get the usb items recongized?

Thanks in advance.
See if your devices are recognized n boot:

dmesg|grep usb

This will show your devices:

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

To see what drivers are loaded:
lsmod

I use a logitech usb cordless mouse and these are the drivers loaded for it.


usbmouse 2008 0 (unused)
keybdev 1828 0 (unused)
mousedev 4084 2
hid 20164 0 (unused)
input 3104 0 [usbmouse keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 18248 0 (unused)
usbcore 57548 1 [usb-storage usbmouse hid usb-ohci]