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Knoppix Cheat-Codes Part 1

Added on:9/6/2008 11:41:29 PM
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    Here is the full official list of Knoppix cheatcodes and other useful information. For all of you still having troubles running this unique distro from CD.
    Most of you will never need this, just because on most hardware Knoppix does not need anything else then: ¨ knoppix lang=en¨ to get the English version.
    These options (can be combined) work from the SYSLINUX bootprompt:
  1. knoppix lang=cn|de|da|es|fr|it|nl  specify language/keyboard

  2. knoppix lang=pl|ru|sk|tr|tw|us  specify language/keyboard

  3. knoppix alsa (or alsa=es1938)  Use ALSA sound driver (at your own risk)

  4. knoppix desktop=fluxbox|icewm  Use specified WM instead of KDE

  5. knoppix desktop=kde|larswm|twm  Use specified WM instead of KDE

  6. knoppix desktop=wmaker|xfce  Use specified WM instead of KDE

  7. knoppix screen=1280x1024  Use specified Screen resolution for X

  8. knoppix xvrefresh=60  Use 60 Hz vertical refresh rate for X

  9. knoppix xserver=XFree86|XF86_SVGA  Use specified X-Server

  10. knoppix xmodule=ati|fbdev|i810|mga  Use specified XFree4-Module (1)

  11. knoppix xmodule=nv|radeon|savage|s3 Use specified XFree4-Module (2)

  12. knoppix xmodule=radeon|svga|i810  Use specified XFree4-Module (3)

  13. knoppix 2  Runlevel 2, Textmode only

  14. knoppix floppyconfig  Run "knoppix.sh" from a floppy

  15. knoppix myconf=/dev/sda1  Run "knoppix.sh" from a partition

  16. knoppix myconf=scan  Try to find "knoppix.sh" automatically

  17. knoppix home=/dev/sda1/knoppix.img  Mount loopback file as /home/knoppix

  18. knoppix home=scan  Try to find knoppix homedir automatic.

  19. knoppix no{apic,agp,apm,audio,ddc}  Skip parts of HW-detection (1)

  20. knoppix no{firewire,pcmcia,scsi}  Skip parts of HW-detection (2)

  21. knoppix no{swap,usb}  Skip parts of HW-detection (3)

  22. failsafe  Boot with (almost) no HW-detection

  23. knoppix pci=irqmask=0x0e98  Notebooks, if PS/2 mouse doesn't work

  24. knoppix pci=bios  Workaround for bad PCI controllers

  25. knoppix ide2=0x180 nopcmcia  Boot from PCMCIA-CD (transmeta notebooks)

  26. knoppix mem=128M  Specify Memory size in MByte

  27. knoppix dma  Enable DMA for ALL IDE-Drives

  28. knoppix noeject  Do NOT eject CD after halt

  29. knoppix-txt  No framebuffer at startup

  30. knoppix vga=normal  No-framebuffer mode, but X

  31. knoppix blind  Start Braille-Terminal (no X)

  32. knoppix brltty=type,port,table  Parameters for Braille device

  33. knoppix wheelmouse  Enable IMPS/2 protocol for wheelmice

  34. knoppix nowheelmouse  Force plain PS/2 protocol for PS/2-mouse

  35. fb1280x1024  Use fixed framebuffer graphics

  36. fb1024x768  Use fixed framebuffer graphics

  37. fb800x600  Use fixed framebuffer graphics

  38. knoppix keyboard=us xkeyboard=us  Use different keyboard (text/X)

  39. knoppix testcd  Check CD data integrity

  40. expert  Interactive setup for experts
    Hint: Using the default DE-bootimage, SYSLINUX boots with german keyboard layout. The '=' letter is located at Shift-0 on this keyboard (just in case you want to change keyboard and language with lang=us).


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