Re: Knoppix versus Overscan: Knoppix loses
Dear Ronald,
boot: knoppix 2
should start you in runlevel 2 (text-only mode). (Cheatcode "adriane"
also puts you in text mode, but with a blind-friendly, talking desktop, to
boot.)
Good luck,
Andrew
On Mon, January 5, 2015 15:47, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> "Andrew" <knoppix@rngresearch.com> wrote:
>
>>Check pages 22 and 27 of your TV manual.
>
> Done already. None of the controls on the TV are of any help in this
> matter.
>
>>But this is a Knoppix list. There should be a way, via X configuration,
>>to define the area of the screen that the desktop is allowed to occupy
>
> That was, in effect, what I was suggesting could or perhaps should be
> the case, at least in the future.
>
> If there is a way of doing that now, I would like to know what it is.
>
>>As a quick-fix temporary measure, however, just to make the system
>> usable:
>> Right-click on the almost invisible panel ("main toolbar") and select
>>"Panel Settings". The "Panel Preferences" dialog should open centered on
>>the desktop. Under the "geometry" tab: Find the "Height" and "Icon"
>>boxes. Triple the height. Set the icon size to one pixel less than
>>double, and then increase it by one. (For example, suppose height: 26
>> and
>>Icon: 24. Set Height to 78. This triples the height (so the top two
>>thirds will be visible). Set Icon to 47. This just about doubles the
>>icon size, but the taskbar still shows three rows of buttons, now with
>>clipped icons (which would also be the case if we went straight to 48).
>>Increase Icon to 48. The second adjustment causes the buttons to be
>>resized.)
>
> This did indeed work to make the system generally usable. So I thank you
> for that.
>
> However given that I will generally be using Knoppix for fixing problems
> (e.g. with hard drives, or diagnosing other hardware problems, e.g.
> relating
> to network connectivity), I think that if there were a way to boot Knoppix
> in text-only mode that would probably be even better for me than what you
> have described above. But I am looking at the boot options on this page:
>
> http://knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix701-en.html
>
> and I am not seeing anything that suggests the existance of a text-only
> boot mode. Is there one? If so, how do I get it?
>
>>And now for something completely different...
>>Menu > Picture > Advanced picture > Aspect adjustments
>>
>>Perhaps you have already tried this, but if nothing else works, I would
>>use "Zoom" format, vertically shrink the image, and, if reduction doesn't
>>suffice, raise the image as well:
>
> Thank you for these interesting suggestions. Unfortunately, I did just
> try adjusting the TV setting in the exact manner you described, and none
> of the TV adjustments really helped at all. :-( Even at maximum height
> and minimum zoom, the overscan problem is still very much present.
>
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