On Monday 17 May 2004 08:35 pm, alex wrote: > It looks like there is no shortcut to check compatibility with a > KNOPPIX CD other than try to make all the devices work.
A suggestion. Grab the DeMuDi image from AGNULA. (No URL handy, but it's easy to google up I'm sure.) It's a special version of Knoppix done up with Linux audio applications in mind. If you boot the thing, and if everything goes well, the first thing on your screen will be QJackCtl. That means modern, next generation audio is working. Video on-screen means video is working. Go into a Konsole and try running "glxgears" and you know you have 3D support (or not). If you really want to know more, you can find the KInfoCenter easily enough, which is a really handy little utility that provides the equivalent of catting around in /proc to look at stuff, and a very spiffy memory status display. Boom. You'd have to spend a lot longer trying to do it some other way, I'd think. It's not that fast to boot up far enough to get to the point where you can run these few commands, but you'd have to issue a *lot* of commands to come up with the same info you can get by just letting it do its thing. You'd either have to do a lot of typing, or go to the trouble to figure out how to do up your own hacked version of Knoppix to run your custom "show me" scripts. Or put the scripts on a floppy, maybe, if the computers still have floppies. Besides, think of it this way. Someone will be looking over your shoulder. Wouldn't you rather show them KDE, glxgears, and KInfoCenter than a bunch of cryptic messages on a text screen? :) > But, I haven't tried the CD on a computer with integrated video > or audio so I have no idea how that would show up during bootup. I have. It works fine. i810 video, i845 video, ac97 audio, sis900 ethernet, maybe some other stuff. All the usual "crap hardware" offenders. I haven't tested it *extensively*, but I've looked at enough different computers to be really impressed with how well it works. It even supported a USB mouse, I'm almost positive. (That box actually had two mice, and I'm only mostly sure I was using the USB one.) -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]