can't find display controls, synaptic broken filter is broken.
Have done two flash installs of Knoppix 7.6.1, and run into a couple of problems.
1. on one of my systems I run a laptop display and a wide external monitor. Windows 8.x has no problem automatically sizing both displays. But in Knoppix, the external monitor is only showing a portion of the desktop. I've looked all over, and haven't been able to find a tool to adjust the screen resolution or otherwise fit the desktop to the screen. the result is that I have to fish blindly for the start icon, and I can't see the bottom taskbar, and basically the desktop is chopped off on all sides.
Is there I tool I haven't recognized that can help me with this?
2. I tried to install UFRaw using synaptic, and it laboured for hours!, and finally presented me with the news that the attempt had failed, and that there were now two broken items that I had to find using the "broken filter." Unfortunately, the "broken filter" doesn't find anything, and so it seems synaptic itself is now broken.
Is there a fix?
I've run into other problems too, but two are probably already enough to get me branded as "troll" again.
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I've moved the posting from "News" to "General Support".
wps
In case someone try to fix what they are running from...
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Capricorny
You should (from somewhere else) try
Code:
sudo e2fsck -fy KNOPPIX/knoppix-data.img
and look at the output.
If you regularly find that it is left in a broken state upon normal shutdown, that is
very interesting news, I would like you to post about it in this subforum! :-)
Good luck!
"Somewhere else" here means that you should (of course) NOT try to check/fix a mounted file system, i.e. do it from within a Knoppix session using that persistent store. In practice, you can also do it from within Knoppix though, starting it without mounting persistent image (cheatcode "noimage"). And if the file system of the persistent image is broken, you may have to start without it. After fixing, it may (in my experience will ofte) work correctly again, but there is no guarantee.