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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"


knoppix noswap No detection of swap partitions.
knoppix nousb No detection of USB devices.
knoppix nousb2 Disable extensions for USB 2.0.
knoppix pnpbios=off Don??™t initialize plug-and-play (PnP) in the BIOS.
knoppix failsafe Do almost no hardware detection.
Table 11-3 lists options that may help if you are having trouble with your video card. Several of
these options are particularly useful if you are having trouble with X on a laptop.
TABLE 11-3
Boot Options to Fix Video Problems
Option Result
knoppix screen=?? Pick X screen resolution. Replace ?? with 640 ?— 480, 800 ?— 600, 1024 ?— 768,
1280 ?— 1024, or any other resolution supported by your video card.
knoppix xvrefresh=60 Set vertical refresh rate to 60 Hz for X (or other value as specified by monitor??™s
manual).
knoppix xhrefresh=80 Set horizontal refresh rate to 80 Hz for X (or other value as specified by
monitor??™s manual).
knoppix xserver=?? Replace ?? with XFree86 or XF86_SVGA.
knoppix xmodule=?? Select the specific driver to use for your video card. Replace ?? with one of
the following: ati, fbdev, i810, mga, nv, radeon, savage, s3radeon,
svga, or i810.
knoppix 2 Run level 2, text mode only.
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Running KNOPPIX 11
TABLE 11-3 (continued)
Option Result
knoppix vga=normal No-framebuffer mode, but X.


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