On Tuesday 08 November 2005 3:04 am, Andreas wrote:

AFAIK this notebook was on sale at least in Australia and now in Germany so maybe someone here could share some tips. Actually I started only Knoppix 4.0.2 on it to make a partimage. This worked when I booted with acpi=off.

For now I can say that KDE shows up aparently with 1024x768 blown up to the display's real resolution of 1280x800. So screen "works" ... kind of.

On the first boot I used the knoppix network-card configuration tool to manually set up the NIC what failed. ETH0 showed up, route looked good but ping was about 15-20 seconds which is a wee bit worthless. On second boot I saw that the kernel printed ETH0, ETH1. Without my fumbling around, knoppix sets the internal NIC to ETH1 and fetched an IP from my router. Now my network was happy and me too of course.

I'm still wondering what ETH0 could be since ifconfig doesn't show it. Maybe it's the bluetooth chip or wlan or firewire ... who knows.

Now I'd like to improve the display which is powered by an ATI X700 XL. Is there a working driver that gives me 1280x800 ?

I'd be nice to have the WLAN chip working. That's an Intel 2200 with 54MBit.

And the modem would be handy, too. I haven't actually found out where I see details about this device.

Can someone fill one of the gaps ?

Sounds like you have a wierd motherboard. I have found that ATI based Athlon boards (MSI 7093) don't work with Knoppix, those machines needed Suse 10 in order to get a young enough a kernel to work (2.6.13). I got double speed clock and ETH0 was very slow; I noted that ETH0 was sharing interupts with everything else (/proc/interupts). It would seem to be a hard to read ACPI table in the BIOS. Maybe you have the same problem. -- Simon Dales, Software Consultant "The impossible is easy"

Hi all ! Andreas wrote:

AFAIK this notebook was on sale at least in Australia and now in Germany so maybe someone here could share some tips. Actually I started only Knoppix 4.0.2 on it to make a partimage. This worked when I booted with acpi=off.

Are you sure it was Australia ? I would guess Austria ;-)

For now I can say that KDE shows up aparently with 1024x768 blown up to the display's real resolution of 1280x800. So screen "works" ... kind of.

Well, based on the expiriences with my MD95400 (of spring this year) that isn't a problem of drivers ... The drivers "fbdev" and "radeon" as shipped with SuSE 10.0 are able to show 1280x800 as soon as the settings are adjusted. The ATI-closed-source fully-3D-accelerated driver "fglrx" will work as well. You need to call "YaST" and change to [Hardware]-[Grafikkarte und Monitor], then [Monitor]. Here you will find a category [--> LCD] with 1280x800.

On the first boot I used the knoppix network-card configuration tool to manually set up the NIC what failed. ETH0 showed up, route looked good but ping was about 15-20 seconds which is a wee bit worthless.

On second boot I saw that the kernel printed ETH0, ETH1. Without my fumbling around, knoppix sets the internal NIC to ETH1 and fetched an IP from my router. Now my network was happy and me too of course.

I'm still wondering what ETH0 could be since ifconfig doesn't show it. Maybe it's the bluetooth chip or wlan or firewire ... who knows.

Try iwconfig ...

Now I'd like to improve the display which is powered by an ATI X700 XL. Is there a working driver that gives me 1280x800 ?

See above. Drivers shipped are capable to do that. Only a question of configuration ...

I'd be nice to have the WLAN chip working. That's an Intel 2200 with 54MBit.

It is working as well.

And the modem would be handy, too. I haven't actually found out where I see details about this device.

Should work as well. I never need to set it up. I will come back with some more hints/tipps soon. Simply have no time right now ... -- Never give up ! Best regards, Reinhard.