Linux friendly hardware guy?

Robert Brockway rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 1 03:37:11 UTC 2005


On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Jason Shein wrote:

> At this point knoppix would be of great assistance due to it's exceptional 
> hardware detection. Boot the knoppix cd, and as long as it boots properly, 
> then open a shell and look through the logs and the output of dmesg for 
> errors.
> 
> if this is a low memory system then make sure you change the default window 
> manager to something with a lighter memory footprint, such as icewm or 
> fluxbox.

If the original poster is confortable with the shell and doesn't need a 
GUI, passing "knoppix 2" [1] to the bootloader boots without a GUI (at 
least it has with all the version of Knoppix I've done this with).

[1] Ie, passing run level 2 to the kernel.

Rob

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