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Dear Mika and friends,<BR>
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What does work for me, ignorant noob that I am?<BR>
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everything, basically - getting a complete gnome desktop is a matter of really knowing deps, but otherwise, cool. All serious issues, drivers, sound, ndiswrapper, xorg config worked otob.<BR>
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note - one can no longer set time or services via gnome apps because gnome is convinced that the distro is not debian<BR>
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3d accel works with my ancient ati x600 card with ati as driver in xorg, which is fantastic....wow .... note one must install gl dri libs by hand! there is no reason to leave out such a small package, and if the mesa dri were included and the xorg conf for ati drivers set to ati, this would happen by itself. <BR>
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for some reason, one still needs "ide1-noprobe" to get the atapi drivers for a sata dvd drive - I am not sure why this does not happen with feisty or sabayon...<BR>
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the directories to mount the fstab or mtab entries are no longer created automatically - silly this, as that was default behaviour on 0.9, and saved unnecessary typing.<BR>
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the time zone thing is a disaster - after install grml is convinced that the hw clock is set to cest, so booting in and out of it requires a reset of the bios clock.There has to be a way to set this ab initio.<BR>
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Either issue a warning that, before installing, the system should be rebooted and the parameter TZ= set, or better yet, script the questions:'<BR>
a. is the hw clock set to utc? if no, then<BR>
b. to what time zone is the clock set.<BR>
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Thus, in my case, no, and America/New_York.<BR>
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Now, if I had remembered to set the parameter at the original boot of the live cd, this probably would not have happened, but that is not something one considers, thus the warning or scripted questions would save a failed install or two. While almost all grml users are in europe, this is a simple matter to remedy.<BR>
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Although hardly necessary, since the distro is not designed to be a consumer desktop, it would be nice if the entire gnome were available somewhere, a la ubuntu. for kde, this is unnecessary, as the versions in either unstable or experimental all match, and most always do. gnome is a mess over two or three versions.<BR>
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There is still no subsitute for runlevel.conf anywhere - this is the best thing anyone has ever invented for the end user. All in all, grml 1 is nigh on perfect.<BR>
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Gratefully,<BR>
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Martin<BR>
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