How to Trackdown a Hardware Failure with Knoppix?

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Monday 11 October 2004 11:22 am, Brian Densmore wrote:

> Second thing to try is, if you are launching knoppix to a text only mode,
> from a command line type in startx. This should launch X or give some
> indication why it is failing.

What you want to do is to redirect the output of startx to a log file so that 
you can review the error messages in text mode.