Angadap2000
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Posted: Dec. 13 2005,04:39 |
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Hi coolmode,
I am newbie. I have a Toshiba satellite 2505cds laptop and I had the same problem. But i found a solution. Here is what I typed at the "Boot:" promte:
expert dsl vga=normal xsetup noicons noswap dma
The "noicons" option is optional but will greatly reduce the memory useage when booted into X GUI. The "noswap" option is optional if you DONT have a swap partition setup or if your HD is blank.
The expert mode will ask you a few yes/no question. 1) About modules: press enter (=Autoscan). 2) About loading additional modules from floppy: type "n" for no and press enter if you have no additional modules you want to load from a floppy. 3) About keyboard type "n" and press enter if the keyboard autoselected for you is correct (for me us was correct). 4) About soundcard: type "Y" and if it prints out "/etc/rcS.d/S00knoppix-autoconfig: line 621: sndconfig: command not found" then you wont have sound. For me this happened. I think I might need to load alsa sound drivers module or something from floppy. 5) About mouse: if you have stub in the middle of you keyboard for a mouse then DSL should have autodetected /dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux. If not then press "y", if yes then "n". 6) About configuring your X11 subsystem press "y". if a error similar to the one for qestion 4 comes up, dont worry about it, if you entered the xsetup option at boot prompt.
Now the X setup will come and I think you should try "xvesa xserver". just answer the question according to your needs until quesiton about choosing your mouse port. for mouse port choose "ps2 port" and next "2 button" . For screen resolution choose "640x480" for the safe side unless you know your max resolution, which for me was 800x600 pixels. for the color depth choose 16 for safe (for me max is 24). And finally choosing you own dpi select "No".
With all this you should be able to boot properly. Hope this helps.
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