[smc-discuss] [Offtopic] Knoppix 7.04 - Graphical Mode

[jaseem abid]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Balasankar Chelamattath <
c.balasankar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> First of all I am sorry to post this topic which isn't related to SMC here.
> Yesterday I used Knoppix Live CD simply out of curiosity to know how it
> works. But the problem is that I cannot enter the graphics mode...
> Somewhere during loading, a message appears ssaying some Xorg file not
> found. But it disappears quickly. So i don't know what it is exactly.
> Whatever boot option i select, they bring me the terminal (Character User
> Interface) screen which has "root at microknoppix/$ " and i can type
> commands... But how to open graphics mode??? It worked nice on my VMWare.
> Is it a problem with my graphics card? My graphics card is
> NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS ,1 GB ... Isn't it compatible with Knoppix??? If
> anyone can help, it'll be great...
>

Can you run a $ startx from the terminal ?


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Jaseem Abid
github.com/jaseemabid
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