On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:59:57 +0100, MPCEE wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello: > > Having followed the instructions to �burn� Knoppix on to a CD, as ISO, > it has been successful!!! > > All 3 laptops were selected to search the CD-ROM first of all, > including the main PC. > > The lap top that I was hoping to run Knoppix on, the Toshiba with the > Trident Graphics card, I find the following: The screen is too dark to > identify what is on the screen. ..so turn up the light. ;o) (if that fails, try "knoppix vga=normal " etc.) > The PC boots ..excellent. Now, before you boot it, you should see a boot screen advicing you to try the F2 and F3 buttons. You do get to those blue screens listing the boot options? > and runs through its sequence. At the end there is a > white box stating, �It is out of range�! But what is out of range. ..if you posted all that output here, I could tell you. (FWIW, your report above would have a lot of people dismiss you as a Microsoft shill trying to "prove" GNU/Linux "Don't work!!!".) > One of the Amilio�s does not recognise the CD to boot from. ..this one will boot from a floppy or off a network cable? (Only relevant if none of the other 2 can't run FG.) > The other CD is that I see Linux/Knoppix running it all its glory, as > it is the first time that I have seen Linux! Having studied the > layout, I found, eventually, the FlightGear folder with �cogs� as ..forget FG for the moment. First review the boot screens and my Knoppix booting recipe in my previous messages so we can get your video hardware identified and diagnosed. ..thenafter, we'll be able to tell you _if_ these laptops can run FG, and in such case, _precisely_ how. That means we (at least I) will need you posting the exact output, which you didn't do above. > icons. The question is, how do you launch it? The executable files are > there, but trying every normal method to launch does not do anything. > Is there another way for launching on Linux? ..plenty. ;o) Just read F2 and F3 and my previous messages. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
