Stu of the pid clan here, didn't read the cheatsheet
right, sorry folks. It works fine now and the 'save
confusion, er config' lets me just type at 

boot: knoppix myconfig=scan. 

and as I strain the eyes as it boots up, it says it is
a radeon 9000.



--- Austin Godber <godber@uberhip.com> wrote:
> ec wrote:
> > The problem is I don't want to install
> debian/knoppix
> > and ati's drivers need to be installed. I like
> running
> > koppix off the cdrom and don't want some driver to
> > damage the monitor from the I list that is loaded
> on
> > the knoppix cd. 
> > 
> > I was hoping that someone would have had this
> > experience and be able to tell me which of the
> ones
> > listed on the cd work with this card and give is
> more
> > functionality than the 'all' or more correctly I
> > believe 'all generic' that it defaults to.
> > 
> > From my little experience, apparently it knows it
> is a
> > radeon card from the below copy/paste from dmesg.
> But
> > does it really get full function?? I haven't and
> wont
> > for awhile, try installing on this machine as it
> is
> > the orginal purchaser's backup machine for his new
> > amd2600 box... at least 3 months more 'burn in'
> time
> > for the new system he has.
> > 
> > 
> > Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp
> memory:
> > 203M
> > agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
> > agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000
> > [drm] AGP 0.99 aperture @ 0xe4000000 64MB
> > [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0
> > 
> > The one thing is that in kde control center, it
> calls
> > it an 'all' card and doesn't list the specific
> radeon
> > driver..unless I am missing something. Also ATI's
> site
> > lists a totally different driver number that the
> dmesg
> > listing does. 
> > 
> > Just wondering. I know and have heard about
> 'wrong'
> > drivers destroying monitors, and yes this old on
> is a
> > real generic...never have figured out what it
> really
> > is, but knoppix seems happy with whatever a
> jen001b
> > is!!! The case says arcus and it is a 17 inch not
> 15
> > that knoppix cd lists as monitors. Oh, well, what
> we
> > get for messing around with junk!
> > 
> > The card is a radeon (in an ati box, not second
> > source) 9000pro 128mb.
> > 
> 
> Did you chec the Knoppix Cheat Codes to see if you
> could specify an X 
> Driver?
>
http://download.linuxtag.org/knoppix/knoppix-cheatcodes.txt
> 
>  From that site I found this:
> knoppix xmodule=radeon
> You would type this at the SYSLINUX boot prompt
> (where you type 
> "knoppix" or "knoppix 2" or something else)
> 
> Austin
> 
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