Knoppix does a good job with the autodetection routines. It also has very conservative default settings. For example its default with XFree86 is to use the vesa driver. This driver almost always works unless your font server crashes and Knoppix doesn't use a font server. You can use Knoppix to get XFree86 setup if you wish. Just copy the file /etc/X11/XFree85Config-4 to your hard drive after you've got everything configured to your satisfaction. You can also install Knoppix to your hard drive, it's based on Debian. :) Just in case you haven't already found it, here is the link to the English language Knoppix resource site. http://www.knoppix.net/ http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/CheatCodes - useful for configuring Knoppix at boot. -----Original Message----- From: xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Beau Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 12:57 AM To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: help with debian on compaq On Tue, 18 May 2004, Cynthia Grossen wrote: > You'll want to read this first > ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/binaries/Common/Install Actually, I had tried that route once, before posting to the list. My attempts to make X work from binary failed, as did my efforts at building from source. I'm kindof green. Here's a possibly relevant question: Howcome knoppix does X so sweetly on my machine. The corolary question is, might there be some way to use this fact to help me get going? -- beau (c)2004ISR; http://www.semanticrestructuring.com Choose One: ( )Democracy ( )Paperless Voting http://www.verfiedvoting.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
