kxlight installation on a dedicated pc - questions

[Fraccy]

The CD is designed to work at 800x600, but the HD installation can work at the maximum detected by the Knoppix auto-configuration system. Unfortunately, it doesn't always recognise the video hardware, so it drops to a safe VESA mode.

That's exactly what happened when I installed it on my new notebook.

To fix it, I edited the xorg configuration file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Take a look at the following section, to find out what screen modes have been detected:

...
#
# Auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config

Section "Monitor"
...


Find a suitable mode, then add it to the 'Screen' section a bit further along. On my computer, this only had resolutions for 800x600 and 640x480, so I had to add 1024x768 to each line.


Section "Screen"
...
   SubSection "Display"
      Depth     16
      Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Depth     24
      Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Depth     32
      Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
EndSection


Save the file, and reboot. Now in the Amiga screenmode prefs, you should have the higher resolution(s) available!

I hope that helps...

Amir

[Fraccy]

Several ways to do this. One way is to boot into KX Light, then drop to a console using 'Ctrl+Alt+Backspace'. You may need to press 'Enter' a couple of times to bring up the prompt.

Then type:

init 2     [this brings you to the correct 'run level']
e3 /etc/X11/xorg.conf     [e3 is a small text editor included with KX Light]

Commands within e3:
'Alt + h' to access the help screen
'Ctrl + k' 'q' to exit without saving
'Ctrl + k' 'x' to save a file and exit

Type 'init 5' to start E-UAE again, and hopefully the screen modes will be available. If not, try rebooting.


You can also boot the computer using a live CD such as Knoppix; then mount your hard drive and use the text editors on the live CD to edit the configuration.

In theory you could even do all this from within E-UAE! But you'd first have edit the .uaerc configuration to give you access to the Linux root directory, which makes it a rather impractical circular process... ;-)

[Fraccy]

@0amigan0

Yes! That is, if your wireless card is supported by the particular version of the Linux kernel used in KX Light... (2.6.24, as far as I recall.)

Of course, the latest kernel supports more cards. KX Light needs an update...