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| Current mood: |  confused |
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| Entry tags: | knoppix |
Knoppix
I recently installed Knoppix on a desktop machine of mine. I was surprised at how easily it went on. In previous installations, I found that it was impossible to get the application installed without knowing the intricacies of Linuxdom. Unfortunately, one could not learn intricacies of Linuxdom unless one were able to imitate a strong knowledge of Linuxdom. Linux users frequently seem to see themselves as the worlds elite, being forced to deal with the rest of us plebes. At any rate, I found the tutorial at IronGeek.com and got my install on. I won't make any mention of the problem that arises from the fact that you need a third party tutorial simply to install an operating system that is capable of running from the CD. I won't bother to mention that. At any rate, I got the install on, and soon noticed that the sound card was not working. Fortunately, there is a Sound card application. Unfortunately, it thinks that it will not run correctly in XWindows. At the behest of the sound card installer, I dropped to a bash window. Since then, the machine boots to the bash window every time, and I am unable to get a GUI window back up and running. I have tried every variation of "Start XWindows from BASH" that I can think of, but I get nothing useful. I have found that I can get back to the GUI by starting my machine with the CD in place. Of course, that means that I can't use my CD, which is why I installed Knoppix to the hard drive in the first place.
I did eventually stumble on the command, which is [startx] at [http://wolfrdr.tripod.com/linuxtips.html#xwindows].
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