Thanks for reply.
I was able to boot with old Knopix 5.1
and it went into X window ok. However both eth,wlan are not active (did not expect this with such an old knopix version). But it validates the hardware (at least for me). In syslog I've found:
Code:
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Nov 28 01:05:54 dutro dhcpcd[3159]: eth0: failed to parse packet
Nov 28 01:06:07 dutro dhcpcd[3159]: eth0: option 43 has zero length
Nov 28 01:06:07 dutro dhcpcd[3159]: eth0: failed to parse packet
Nov 28 01:06:10 dutro dhcpcd[3159]: eth0: option 43 has zero length
Nov 28 01:06:10 dutro dhcpcd[3159]: eth0: failed to parse packet
...
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.3.0
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: Copyright(c) 2004-2008 Emulex. All rights reserved.
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.05
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.002.
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.011.
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: Driver 'st' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: ACPI Warning (nspredef-0934): \_SB_.PCI0.SATA.PRT0._GTF: Return type mismatch - found Integer, expected Buffer [20081204]
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: ata1.00: _GTF unexpected object type 0x1
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: ata1.00: _GTF unexpected object type 0x1
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: int32x1 773 MB/s
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: int32x2 738 MB/s
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: int32x4 617 MB/s
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: int32x8 531 MB/s
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: mmxx1 2382 MB/s
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: mmxx2 2753 MB/s
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: sse1x1 1492 MB/s
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: sse1x2 1984 MB/s
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: sse2x1 2839 MB/s
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: sse2x2 3207 MB/s
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (3207 MB/s)
Nov 28 20:09:11 dutro kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 8:7.
Nov 28 20:09:33 dutro kdm[2932]: X server died during startup
Nov 28 20:09:33 dutro kdm[2932]: X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled
Last two lines would explain the black screen
In Xorg lots of bad things
(just like that :/ ) will google mean time.