July 2007 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Controlling CPU Frequency
by - Tong - 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi, I rebooted my PC the other day, and only then I know that my CPU is overheated, because I saw a BIOS warning. The fact that my CPU might have been overheated for months made me consider seriously to control my CPU frequency (My AMD cpu has that feature available in bios). I've tried to make use powernowd before, but never able to. I should feel lucky this time since the latest kernel that grml 1.0-1 uses, support cpu frequency control by default: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_20 "Grand unification of ACPI based speedstep-centrino and acpi-cpufreq drivers. It combines functionality of these two driver into acpi-cpufreq driver." But the problem is that googling "acpi-cpufreq" didn't come up much result. The closest is from http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=256607 "... you should try the 'acpi-cpufreq' module. My favorite governor is the 'conservative' one. Under load, it will ramp up the frequency, but it will generally keep it as low as possible." But there is no details. So I'm wondering if anyone can help me here? thanks a lot! -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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uxterm unicode problem - part 2
by Matej Rehak 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hello people, I have made some progress with displaying non-english characters in uxterm. I've tried to run uxterm: uxterm -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1' and it worked ! Furthermore, I found (u)xterm's definitions (aliases) of tiny, small, medium, .... font sizes (look for 'resizing-fu') here: ~/.zshrc, /etc/skel/.zshrc and I've replaced '-iso8859-15' with '-iso10646-1'. But what a surprise ! It did nothing, even after PC reboot :-( Is there a font-search utility so that I can dynamically see list of existing fonts when changing/clearing attributes ? Because it seems to me that there are no corresponding fonts for iso10646-1 and so the nearest alternative is taken, which is iso8859-15, with one exception (Huge). Best regards, M. Rehak

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uxterm unicode problem
by Matej Rehak 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hello people, I have a strange problem displaynig non-english characters in uxterm. I am using the default fonts in /etc/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm: *VT100.font2: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1 *VT100.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 *VT100.font3: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 *VT100.font4: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 *VT100.font5: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1 *VT100.font6: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1 But most national characters are displayed as blanks: čďľňšťž. They are all consonants, more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-2 The most strange thing is when I switch the font (via uxterm Unicode Fonts menu or Shift+KP_add) to "Huge", then all the chars are displayed correctly. Other applications (e.g. gvim) behave correctly. Another strange thing is that another terminal - URxvt, displays these chars correctly using (I think) the same font as uxterm's "Large". Now I've looked into ~/.Xresources: urxvt*.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 It seems to me as a display-encoding problem, but I don't know what to put in uxterm's defaults (/etc/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm) instead of iso10646-1 (none of {utf8, iso8859-15, iso8859-2} worked). Best regards, M. Rehak

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Booting with grub on usb-flash-pen
by Morten Christensen 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

I have installed grml-small 0.40 on an usb flash-pen with grml2hd. When I try to boot it grub answers root (hd1,0) Filesystem unknown, partition type 0x7 Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition Can any of you help me with, how to identify the flash-pen in grub? I expect to make several lines in the grub/menu, and choose between them depending on, if the PC already has a sata-harddisk or a pata-harddisk. -- Morten Christensen

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Installing grml with encrypted root with encrypted swap
by Mathew Brown 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to install grml on an encrypted root partition and with an encrypted swap partition. I plan on installing grml on an external USB drive and since it can be stolen so easily, I'd rather protect my data using encryption. So is this possible? According to htt://grml.org/grml2hd/grml2hd.html this can't be done but that web page hasn't been updated since Jan. 2006. Any ideas? Thanks for your help. -- Mathew Brown mathewbrown(a)fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different

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vmware server 1.0.3 on grml 1.0
by Lars Schimmer 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Has anyone managed to compile and run the vmware 1.0.3 server (with any-any-112 patch) on grml 1.0 with kernel 2.6.20 ? At my HD install it won´t compile the kernel module :-( MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer(a)cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGqJrDmWhuE0qbFyMRAsrwAJ9XZCAmyj2NPdfFFjDF1ehd6SMG/gCfTIZj ge5O40vZrMVQYYFYHnGOIR0= =zxl1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Opera browser
by Matej Rehak 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

Hello, Today I have tried to install Opera web browser via Aptitude, and I didn't find it. Will it be available for GRML in the future ? Thanx, M.Rehak

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Problem with make mrproper
by Charles Hewson 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

I did install of kernel source tree (linux-source-2.6.20-grml) and make mrproper still can not find parts of the amos1100 driver. Console output is attached. What am I missing? Charles ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/

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noon initrd question
by martin yazdzik 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Dear Friends, On my explerimental partition, just for fun, and to test drivers, &c, I sometimes do things either adventursome or stupid, depending upon one's point of view. I should like to install the grml 2.6.22 kernel, but, having installed the image, sources, some modules I use, &c, after mkinitrdramfs while the package is built and installed, lilo is correct, upon boot everything fails because, at least according to the running text, it does not find /lib/modules...? Now, lib modules 2.6.22 is there, but very sparsely populated. Could someone, forgiving my inexperience and inadequacy, tell me, step by step, how to make this kernel work, as I am either failing to install something necessary, or failing to create the proper initrd image? I apologise for the inconvenience. All good wishes, martin In caecus terrae, luscus rex est.

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nfs - impossible to mount a remote nfs-share
by Frank Eisenblaetter 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

I have a Ubuntu-Server with a configured NFS-Share. It's possible to mount this share on an other host which run's kubuntu. If I try to mount the share with my grml hd installation with # mount -t nfs server:/share /mnt/server I get the following error: mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking Either use "-o nolocks" to keep locks local, or start statd. If I try to start rpc.statd with # /etc/init.d/nfs-common it takes about 1 minute to finish "Starting NFS common utilities: statd.", but id doesn't change anything. # ps ax | grep statd gives no output # rpcinfo -p localhost rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection timed out # ps ax | grep portmap 4410 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/portmap -i 127.0.0.1 Installed versions: - portmap 6.0-2 - nfs-common 1:1.1.0-6 Any Ideas why I cannot start nfs-common? Regards, Frank

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