5 out of 7 live linux CD distros…
5 out of 7 live linux CD distros have this strange image artifact when booted or installed.
It isn’t the picture that matters, it’s the artifacts that come along with it.
Really, really annoying because it’s damn near impossible to Google me up a solution. I’m pretty sure someone has already solved this problem somewhere, but I’m not exactly sure what keywords that person used to describe the problem. As we all know, if you can’t ask the right questions, you have a poor chance of being able to search for the solution.
I’m currently using a hard drive install of Debian obtained via their netinstall.iso image. I do not get the vertical line artifacts that are arranged in a horizontal pattern when booting most any version of Knoppix. I’m assuming it’s a problem with my hardware video drivers and the wrapper software used to get it to work.
I’d just do the hard disk install of Knoppix, except that the installer script breaks things.
My current plan is to boot Knoppix sometime when I’m less busy and see what video settings get automagicly configured at start-up. Updates to follow.
TD Says :
What video card do you have?
2007-05-19 23:53 PermalinkStandard Mischief Says :
I guess I should have said something. I’ve got a nVIDIA g-force4 MX 440.
I’m pretty sure the drivers are non-free, and I understand that there is some kind of “wrapper” code to get them to work on my system
2007-05-20 05:07 PermalinkStandard Mischief Says :
Over at mdmm.com they have a pdf file. In it, they describe my problem.
page one, item two:
That’s my problem to a tee, so we register and try the email support thingy.
2007-05-20 22:02 PermalinkTD Says :
Hmm, I don’t actually have any nvidia cards lying around at the moment, but in the past I’ve had good luck using the open-source ‘nv’ driver. Since you said you’re using Debian, I assume it’s set up to use ‘nv’ as well, unless you specifically installed the closed-source Nvidia drivers.
Got your xorg.conf file handy?
2007-05-21 18:37 PermalinkStandard Mischief Says :
Hmm, I wish you had told me the name of that file before I spent an hour digging it up myself. I’ve got the one Debian installed, now I’ve got to boot knoppix and get that one.
By skimming the Debian file, I did indeed confirm that I was using the ‘nv’ driver. No idea what knoppix does to get the video card to work but I’ll find out.
2007-05-25 01:36 Permalink