Error starting X11.......

[Rod]

I am relatively new to Linux, but in my support of the 'open source' community I am going to learn it. The problem I am having is that I just built a new machine for myself and I cannot get Knoppix past starting X11. My monitor goes out of range. I have tried noapm and noddc, neither of which worked. I have also tried fb1280x1024 vsync=60. Below is the error:

"starting x11..... (screen went black, I ctrl+alt+F1) and when the screen came back on here is what was returned.

scsi0 :error on channel 0, ID0, Ilin ) CDB request 00 00 00 40 00 info fld= 0x55f26 (nonstd) current sdob: 00:00 sense medium key error additional sense indicates unrecovered read error I/O error : dev 0b:00, secotr 1408132

Any thoughts or suggestions? Could it be my copy of Knoppix?

[Ylz]

This seems for me, that there might be an error on your CD and X11 cannot read the data it's up to do.

I hope, you are trying to start X11 from CDROM and not from HDD. So you can try to burn another Knoppix-CD.

Greez
- Dan

[Rod]

Yea, it is a CD. I thought it may be a CD error. I will try to find a new copy.

[Stephen]

Yea, it is a CD. I thought it may be a CD error. I will try to find a new copy.

Just to be sure it is a bad CD at the boot: prompt use knoppix testcd. And try just failsafe or expert by themselves at the boot: prompt.