knoppix3.2 questions

**jmoore2001** · April 14th, 2003, 05:51 PM

i decided to try out knoppix....

question 1.. sometimes when i boot my mouse works, sometimes not. why is this?

question 2.. since knoppix is run off of ram, the more you have the faster knoppix will be...?? is this true?

**sixf00t4** · April 14th, 2003, 06:04 PM

Q1: cant tell you. usb? ps2?

Q2: no, not true.

**jmoore2001** · April 14th, 2003, 06:19 PM

well i have a usb mouse, but whenever i reboot and put in my ps2 mouse, both of them magically work.

and the 2nd question again...that doesnt make sense. if it isnt running off of a hard drive, it only makes sense that if you have a computer running off of 32 mgs of ram that it wouldnt perform as well as with 512 mgs

**chris64** · April 14th, 2003, 06:23 PM

Originally posted by jmoore2001
well i have a usb mouse, but whenever i reboot and put in my ps2 mouse, both of them magically work.

and the 2nd question again...that doesnt make sense. if it isnt running off of a hard drive, it only makes sense that if you have a computer running off of 32 mgs of ram that it wouldnt perform as well as with 512 mgs

Yeah it would run faster on more ram because it can put more data on the ram instead of having to access the hard drive alot.

**Redwolf** · April 14th, 2003, 06:24 PM

The speed of KNOPPIX is more dependent on CD speed rather than RAM. DDR RAM (or RDRAM for the AMD-terminology challenged

) would always help, but even if you had 512mb DDR Ram, if you have an 8x CD drive and I have a 16x, my KNOPPIX session would be faster. If it's 32x or above speed you have, then this really doesn't apply to you.

Oh, and I think you got the part about the RAM backwords

Don't get me wrong though, RAM WILL help. But not as much as other things.

While I'm thinking about it, KNOPPIX uses compression to fit all that stuff on a CD. Meaning, naturally, it takes CPU cycles to decode stuff. So a fast processor would really help more than anything.

**jmoore2001** · April 14th, 2003, 06:32 PM

backwards? what do you mean...?

**Redwolf** · April 14th, 2003, 07:18 PM

Originally posted by jmoore2001
well i have a usb mouse, but whenever i reboot and put in my ps2 mouse, both of them magically work.

and the 2nd question again...that doesnt make sense. if it isnt running off of a hard drive, it only makes sense that if you have a computer running off of 32 mgs of ram that it wouldnt perform as well as with 512 mgs

That backwards.

Oh...wait. Now I'm backwards! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhh...that's better.