[ale] Knoppix

[Jeff Hubbs]

I just came back from HL Computer, where I booted three of the four
displayed laptops with a boot CD derived from Knoppix (the fourth
wouldn't boot to CD right off, so I declined to mess with it further. 
One, the HP, seems to have had its sound detected and configured
properly, but its scroll pad next to the pointer pad wasn't working.  

The scroll pad seems like an uber-nice feature - anyone know who else
besides HP has them and if they can be made to work?

- Jeff

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 11:56, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Interesting point.  I took a Knoppix cd home and booted all my systems 
> with it.  Only one didn't boot.  Funny, I installed Debian on it just 
> the other day.  8)  It's my wife's machine and is a homebrew system with 
> a MB with sis chips on it.  All on one kind of board that I was 
> surprised Linux was able to support, but it does, including video and 
> network and sound.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> Michael Golden wrote:
> 
> >>That is a GREAT idea!! If the stores floor model will run KNOPPIX, it'll
> >>run any thing Linux you can throw at it.
> > 
> > 
> > It is important to note that the opposite is not necessarily true
> > though. Just because Knoppix will not run on a machine does NOT
> > necessarily mean that other distributions of linux will not either.
> > Knoppix is a good general indicator though. I have a Dell Inspiron 5150
> > laptop that I bought recently that the Knoppix CD simply will not boot
> > on however I was able to boot and install gentoo and have everything I
> > care about work. (except some glitches with gentoo's kernel and acpi)
> > (Also, I did research the machine first and opted out of their builtin
> > wireless and bought my own card so that I'd have that supported)
> > 
> > 
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