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Posted: Dec. 20 2007,02:23 QUOTE
You should be editing the file in /boot/grub/ NOT the one in /cdrom/boot/grub. I'm not sure why you have a /cdrom directory with files in it. That is where the cdrom would be mounted when you boot from a cdrom.

You could edit menu.lst on the machine you  used to transfer DSL to the hard drive. All you need to do is boot from the cd again, mount the hard drive & navigate to /mnt/hda<n>/boot/grub (where <n> is the partition number).

Did you save a backup when you loaded DSL to the hard drive on the other machine. Try booting on the Libretto with 'DSL vga=808 norestore xsetup', choose xfbdev in xsetup.

I haven't tried 4.1 or 4.2, but 4.0 works OK on my L100. I will try & find the time to load up 4.2 at the weekend. I do however use a different upgrade route as I have 3.4.x & 4.x both on the L100. 3.4.x resides on a native Linux partition, but 4.x is stored on the Win98 partition so all I do is copy over the new knoppix file & upgrade the kernek files stored in /boot when necessary.
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Posted: Dec. 20 2007,11:38 QUOTE
The settings for X are stored in an rc file in each user's home directory.  You could manually change to xfbdev... maybe you could even execute the command from a login shell and see what happens first.  My .xserverrc looks like this:

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exec /usr/bin/X11/Xfbdev -2button -mouse /dev/psaux -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null
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Posted: Dec. 20 2007,11:38 QUOTE
A Frugual install to disk does NOT use /boot/ for loading the system.  This is really /Knoppix/boot/. btw.

My 'proof' is I supplied a host=libretto parameter at install time, and I can see that this is my host name.  This parameter is NOT in /boot/grub/menu.lst, but is in /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst

Also the former has noacpi and the later acpi.  dmesg shows acpi on.

How can I tell if xfbdev is being used?  There are cheatcodes for it, but they are for specific resolutions, not the one needed for the Libretto.

4.2 is out?  After all that work to get 4.1 installed ?

bTW, my hd in my Libretto is a Hitachi 4Gb microharddrive in a CF-2.5"IDE adapter.  Completely quite and greatly enhanced battery life!  But it would be nice to be able to read the desktop, and see what the battery status is....

So how do I tell if xfbdev is being used?
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Posted: Dec. 20 2007,11:44 QUOTE
Wow... our messages were posted at exactly the same time.  You can tell if you're using xfbdev by reading the contents of each user's ~/.xserverrc file.
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Posted: Dec. 20 2007,12:29 QUOTE
Quote (john.martzouco @ Dec. 20 2007,06:38)
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exec /usr/bin/X11/Xfbdev -2button -mouse /dev/psaux -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null

OK.  Mine is the same, minus the -2button.  What is that for?  My Libretto;'s mouse is 2 buttons on the back of the monitor with the equiv of the eraser-head control on the front of the monitor....

Well, looks like my desktop readablity problemwas no desktop background.  I am playing around with the desktop config, and by setting the background (to any of the 4 provided), I now have a good, readable desktop and all the status stuff up in the rigth is readable.

Now to figure out where the icons went to.

Then I can get down to business again.  Like figuring out how to remote to a GNOME-based server and have the gnome desktop, not just X (I have this working via VNC from a Gnome-based notebook)....
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