[TriLUG] Knoppix help? possible video problem

[Jason Tower]

i get this when i run knoppix on a system hooked up to a crappy 15" 
monitor.  try booting with the "knoppix screen=640x480" parameter

jason

On Monday 05 April 2004 23:18, Rob Rousseau KI4BKE wrote:
> Heya folks,
>    One of the Hams that I know picked up a copy of Knoppix at our
> booth this past weekend.   :-) Unfortunately, it appears he's having
> some video problems.   :-( Anyone here know what might be the
> trouble?   I'll pass it back to him, or just CC: him on it. Thank you
> so much,
> -Rob, KI4BKE
> ps-I had a lot of fun on Sunday and was glad to get to see the guys I
> knew and meet the ones that I hadn't met yet too.
>
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> Rob,
>
> Thanks for putting me on to the Triangle Linux User Group.  I picked
> up a copy of Knoppix at the Linux Users Group table at the RARS Fest
> yesterday, and I am looking forward to seeing how Linux looks and
> feels.
>
> However, I tried to run it on a desktop I have here, but I seem to be
> running into a display problem, and I wonder if you could possibly
> help me, run this by someone who is familiar with Knoppix, or post
> this to an appropriate list to see if anyone can figure out what I
> might be doing wrong.
>
> I attempted to run Knoppix on a Pentium 133 MHz system with 131 meg
> of RAM using the CD and a boot disk.  When I attempt to boot up, I
> got the load prompt, and I typed in knoppix lang=us. (Once I saw that
> I had a monitor problem, I tried several other commands as well, but
> I'll describe them later.)
>
> The first indication of a problem was after I saw LOADING VMLINUZ and
> LOADING MINIROOT.GZ.  I got an error message that said YOU PASSED AN
> UNDEFINED MODE NUMBER.  PRESS <RETURN. TO SEE VIDEO MODES AVAILABLE,
> <SPACE> TO CONTINUE, OR WAIT 30 SECONDS.
>
> It always indicates that it is apparently seeing a VESA VGA.
>
> When I get this, I have tried selecting several different modes, and
> also just hitting space, all with pretty much the same end result -
> it keeps loading, but shortly thereafter, I always get another
> message that says, ACPI: UNABLE TO LOCATE RSDP.
>
> After this, it looks like the loading process continues, but when it
> is time for the display to come up, I get a display that looks like
> it consists of 5 vertical ghosted images.  I can see the desktop
> software, so I know it has been loaded, but the because of the
> ghosted image, It is certainly nothing useful.
>
> Now, about all I know about the video is what I get from startup, and
> it is as follows:
>
> BUS 0
> DEVICE 13
> FUNCTION 0
> VENDOR ID 5333
> DEVICE ID 8811
> IRQ 11
>
> I did read through the docs on the disk, and based on what I saw
> there, I tried knoppix xmodule=vesa, knoppix xmodule=fbdev,
> fb=800x600 and knoppix-txt.  (Not all at the same time, of course.) 
> Nothing seems to change the display.  I always see five ghosted
> images.
>
> I am an absolute neophyte with Linux, so I am sure I am missing
> something very basic here, and I would appreciate any advice you or
> anyone else can give.  Please email me direct at
> normany at mindspring.com if you can help.
>
> Thanks,
> Norman
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