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Knoppix and SL Linux

Gromitigo Fish
Registered User
Join date: 11 Mar 2006
Posts: 4
03-16-2006 17:50
Has anyone gotten SL to run from knoppix yet?
When I try to run it, the last thing it tells me is to ensure I have the color depth set to 32.
I load up knoppix with "screen=1024x768 depth=32" as boot options but get the same result.

If anyone has gotten this to work, please explain what boot options or modification you needed to do.

I need to do this because the laptop I'm using doesn't belong to be offically, and I wouldn't want...the questionalble textures and such to appear in a cache sometime. :)

Thanks for the replies!
Darkside Eldrich
Registered User
Join date: 10 Feb 2006
Posts: 200
03-16-2006 17:58
Give depth=24 a try instead of depth=32. Linux reckons color depth differently.
Gromitigo Fish
Registered User
Join date: 11 Mar 2006
Posts: 4
Nogo
03-16-2006 18:27
Didn't work with depth=24.
Here is what it spits out, hopefully someone's seen this before and knows what to change.

2006-03-18T01:24:02Z INFO: createContext: creating window 800x600x32
2006-03-18T01:24:02Z INFO: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
2006-03-18T01:24:02Z INFO: Unloading all GL symbols...
2006-03-18T01:24:02Z WARNING: OSMessageBox: Window creation error
2006-03-18T01:24:02Z INFO: Unloading all GL symbols...
2006-03-18T01:24:02Z WARNING: LLWindowManager::create() : Error creating window.
2006-03-18T01:24:02Z WARNING: Unable to create window, be sure screen is set at 32-bit color in Control Panels->Display->Settings
2006-03-18T01:24:02Z INFO: remove_marker_file()
Leena Khan
Lasting Impressionist
Join date: 21 Apr 2004
Posts: 200
03-16-2006 19:29
That erroe looks like you havent installed your video card glx driver... look for a package that's like ati-glx (for ati cards) or nvidia-glx (for nvidia cards of course).. Install, then look for a program called (ati/nvidia)-settings or -config
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Gromitigo Fish
Registered User
Join date: 11 Mar 2006
Posts: 4
03-16-2006 20:00
Ok, I tried to install the drivers from ATI but was unable.
Really I was looking to see if anyone had sucessfully run SL from Knoppix and what steps they took to do it.