Following up on my own post:

I've tried the above stuff with the 3.3 2-9-2004 release and it all behaves the same.

However, like a fool I realized that the problem is that I was running both the VGA out and the TV out at the same time. Disconnecting the TV out helped immensely.

With only VGA hooked up, the default "knoppix" login worked great.

With both hooked up, the default login only showed on the TV out--like the Xserver gave preference to that output.

With both hooked up, the "fb800x600" login gave me a mirrored display.

Hopefully someone will find this interesting.

Is it possible to make the VGA output the default display when logging in in a default manner?

Brad