Quote Originally Posted by Daedaleus
I've tried all that and then some, nothing works, I'm begining to think it's just the monitor, it is a rather old vga monitor. It run on a 30 htz refresh cycle instead of 60 so I believe it's part of the problem.

So I've simply installed red-hat 9 and I'm going to try and re-install knoppix back into a seperate partiition to ry and finish getting worked out after I can get another monitor.
You need a svga capable monitor and card to be able to use Knoppix from CD. You could install from the failsafe boot at a console login and then when you reboot and the X server fails then use CTRL and ATL and F1 keys at the same time to get a console login then login as regular user and use su to become root then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and choose suitable settings for the monitor and video card once completed /etc/init.d/kdm restart to restart the xserver and get a new KDE greeter screen.