Knoppix HELP!

[Crism]

I downloaded the Knoppix ISO file, burned it onto a CD, and ran it on my Sony laptop (one with a removable docking bay and 12.1in screen) and it loads up, says it found an undefined video modes or something like that, says Continue or Space to see video modes, if I press either, it starts loading Knoppix and it says that "No Knoppix File System. Dropping you to a (very limited) shell" in red letters. Then it gives me the knoppix command like and about 6 commands. I even tried running Knoppix in failsafe mode. How do I fix this?

[JIMINATOR]

hmmm, methinks you better hit a linux/knoppix forum for this one.
it sounds like there may be something funky with the video bios....

[Crism]

yeah...that what i was thinking...it's intel 830m video...i have to try to use red hat in actually install linux now or try something else...

[JIMINATOR]

some of this may be useful to you, if not oh well, it's all I could find unless you speak russian.
I have recently gotten a scrap laptop, so that is going to become a linux box also...

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On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:51:37PM -0500, Mike Morrett wrote:

> > Are you the guy who tried to load Knoppix CD, and then what appeared to
> > be RedHat on that laptop at the meeting last night?
>
> YES

Just for future reference, I used the "knoppix noscsi screen=800x600"
boot parameters to get Knoppis to boot on that laptop. Now, as to why it
stopped when X loaded... <shrug>

> > Intel I810/I815 DC100/I810e support
> > CONFIG_AGP_I810
> > This option gives you AGP support for the Xserver on the Intel 810
> > 815 and 830m chipset boards for their on-board integrated graphics.
> > This is required to do any useful video modes with these boards.
>
> Putting on my novice hat... Can you translate into English the above?
>
> I&#39;m assuming I&#39;ll need to get the BSware source CD from Bruce.

Not yet: you may need some boot parameters.

uname -r

Will tell you your kernel version:

ls /boot

Will show us:

System.map
System.map-2.4.18-bf2.4
System.map-2.4.19-wLVM
System.map-2.4.20-wLVM
config
config-2.4.18-bf2.4
config-2.4.19-wLVM
config-2.4.20-wLVM
grub
vmlinuz
vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
vmlinuz-2.4.19-wLVM
vmlinuz-2.4.20-wLVM

See if that &#39;CONFIG_AGP_I810&#39; line is in the proper config-X.X.XX-xxx
file. That way we&#39;ll know if the support is in there (probably yes).
Also, type "dmesg | grep -3 -- &#39;81[05]&#39;" and see what came up when you
booted.

I would also edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (IIRC) to limit your resolution
to 800x600.