A question about the "how to make it work" issue of my week.

[David Nicol]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can anyone direct me to an explanation of how/why an installed from
> Live distro seems to lack the auto detect on startup properties ?

This issue is yet another example of  free software only working as
well as it needs to to satisfy the needs of whoever has the expertise
to improve it.

I was pleasantly surprised at the autorecognition ability of slax.
Have you tried Slax, instead of knoppix?