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curaga

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Posted: June 10 2008,19:06

The text mode shouldn't have any impact on X consoles, or do you boot to text mode only?

There are also easy to use, graphical cd burners in MyDSL, K3B and xcdroast. Between them I'd recommend Xcdroast, it's smaller and more recent.

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lucky13

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Posted: June 10 2008,19:17

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I was just continuing but going into these modes it offers seven rows x columns options, some allow me to see writing in the cd burner app.

Please see the wiki page for cheatcodes or use F2 and F3 when you boot to get a list of them. Among them are cheatcodes for vga and framebuffer, and you can run xsetup.sh (in console) to set up the proper resolution for your video. You'll get kind of an acid trip effect if you go beyond your hardware's abilities and, e.g., run 1024x768 if your card only handles 800x600 or 640x480. If you set up correctly, the colors shouldn't change and nothing should disappear from the window decorations.

Do what curaga recommended if you want a graphical burn tool.

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setecio

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Posted: June 10 2008,21:12

I was booting the live CD on a Dell domension 2400 (about 4 years old) but also tried it on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 laptop (about 8 years old).

The difference is amazing - The Toshiba boots into a really smooth nice looking desktop, the Dell looks aweful and obviously needs some tweaking/cheat codes (Yes it looks acid trippy with yellow edging and pixelated desktop). It made me wonder if comments on another post about DSL 4.4 looking aweful were coming from someone who is seeing what I see on my Dell.

My reason for trying to get the basic CD burner to work is so I can have the live CD handy to rescue broken machines and write the files to CD without having to connect to the net and install some new apps.

lucky13

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Posted: June 10 2008,21:30

While the Knoppix autoconfig script is usually pretty good, it's not perfect at detecting everything nor is it the fastest way to get things set up -- hence cheatcodes. Since computers differ in terms of their hardware, DSL can boot perfectly without any assistance on some computers while requiring cheatcodes, modules, or extensions with other things. Search the forums (and wiki) for your particular model and see how others have succeeded in setting things up.

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setecio

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Posted: June 11 2008,08:39

I searched for info on the intel 82845 graphics chip (used in the Dell dim 2400) and came up with this
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....l=82845
which I was able to do.

It has improved things so I can see everything but colours still aren't the same as the proper version on the Toshiba laptop. In the Dell the desktop is still a bit pixilated and the taskbar at the bottom and the window surrounds are bright yellow instead of grey.

I'll keep searching.

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