September 2009 - Grml - lists.mur.at

the linux cookbook
by Josh 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, wow I did not know I could read the linux cookbook online until I did a google search for it and found it online. But here's a problem I need to overcome, and if anyone has already overcome this being blind, can you share how you did it? Ok, so for me to practically use this cookbook, I will need to: *be able to somehow read the book and then go to my computer and follow the directions. so I would need two computers? one to read the book on, and another to have grml Linux on. or *have a braille copy of the Linux cookbook so I therefore only need one computer and can read the braille copy to refer back to. Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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Boot loaders
by Michael Whapples 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hello, In the past I have always used lilo for my boot loader, partly due to lilo being the first boot loader I learnt and so never really gave much time to learn grub and partly due to having knowledge on how to get the boot loader screen of lilo to beep when it appears (information on the GRML wiki about accessibility). Last night I came across one of the problems with lilo and I believe grub might be able to solve this. The problem was that the GRML kernel I am running (2.6.31-grml) was updated by apt in an upgrade. I forgot to run lilo before rebooting and so my system became impossible to boot from the HD. At some point in the past my BIOS settings had been lost and so my CD drive is now on a lower priority than the HD for booting (not being able to see, I can't use the BIOS by myself to correct the BIOS boot order, so I had no way to correct the problem). I believe grub allows the user to enter a command at the boot screen and so boot any device (not quite sure where I have seen this but I think it may even have been here). My questions: 1. Am I right about grub being able to accept commands at the boot screen allowing booting of anything (even if it isn't in the menu list)? 2. Is it possible to get the grub boot screen to beep like the lilo one as described in the accessibility information on the GRML wiki? 3. Have you got any extra reasons you would suggest changing to grub from lilo or is there a different boot manager you would suggest? Michael Whapples

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GoogleEarth stürzt ab
by Ch. Hanisch 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Hallo, obwohl grml dafür nicht gemacht ist, frage ich mich doch, warum die GoogleEarth-Installation out of the box in /opt nach dem Startbildschirm sich verabschiedet. ... Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Google Earth has caught signal 11. We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed. This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written to this text file: ~/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4ac25fc2.txt Please include this file if you submit a bug report will to Google. Bei der Installation war folgende Meldung aufgefallen: Loci-Setup: Verdächtiger Größenwert für Option option Wie kann man dem abhelfen? Gruß Ch. Hanisch

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3. upgrade from 2.6.23 to 2.6.28
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Hello Mika, i have spend a lot of time, but it will not work for me to upgrade from 2.6.23-grml to 2.6.28-grml. So another question. I want to use my installed grml on a asus eepc 1005ha-m. I have search via google and found some hints to use kernels greater 2.6.30. which of the daily builds will use such an kernel and can i upgrade the distro via changing the settings in /etc/apt/source-list and a aptitude dist-upgrade ???? Regards Dietmar

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upgrade from kernel 2.6.23 to 2.6.28
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hello Mika, thanks for your answer. I have done a update-iniramfs -c -t -k 2.6.28-grml After that i started the kernel with this initrd from dos (i allways start from dos with linld097.com. The kernel loads and stand than in the initramfs. I did not hear any output from my apollo synthesizer (boot-option speakup_synth=apollo). I have unpacked the initrd.img-2.6.28-grml and looked for the speakup- modules, but he modules are not in the initrd.img-2.6.28-grml. On the system the modules are in /lib/modules/2.6.28-grml/extra/speakup/ How can i add this modules? Unpacking with gzip -dc initrd.img-2.6.28-grml | cpio -i copy the extra folder into the 2.6.28-grml directory and then find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 >initrd.img-2.6.28-grml will produce a new initrd, but speakup will not work and the system will not boot. How can i do a depmode for the not running kernel 2.6.28-grml? thanks for your help. Regards Dietmar

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from kernel 2.6.23 to 2.6.28
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hello, i use the 2.6.23-grml-kernel on my system. I want to upgrade the kernel to version 2.6.28-grml. If i do: aptitude install linux-image-2.6.28-grml only this package will be downloaded and installed, but no drivers from grml. How can i upgrade the kernel with all the grml-modules of the 2.6.28 kernel? Thanks for your help Regards. Dietmar

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Boot question from a newbie
by Øyvind Lode 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

Hello all: How can I boot a GRML installation from the Live CD? I have a GRML installation on the 3rd partition. When running from the Live CD the partition is identified as /dev/sda3. I did not want to install the boot loader to the MBR of /dev/sda so I installed LILO to /dev/sda3.

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Grml Medium on Acer Aspire AS5536
by T o n g 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, This is a report of things don't work on an Acer Aspire AS5536. http://us.acer.com/acer/productv.do? LanguageISOCtxParam=en&kcond61e.c2att101=57644&sp=page16e&ctx2.c2att1=25&link=ln438e&CountryISOCtxParam=US&ctx1g.c2att92=447&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=1731859535 ............................................................................ Is X running at the correct resolution? Not sure, since xwininfo is not installed. but xrandr reports wrong resolution. 3-D Acceleration? Probably not, since glxinfo is not available/installed. Does the trackpad work? Partially. * Does it move the mouse pointer? Yes * Does the right hand side emulate a mouse scroll wheel? No * Does the trackpad single click, click & hold work? No Does the sound work? Yes, the speaker-test works. Does pressing the volume hotkeys raise, lower and mute volume? Yes for raise, lower volume -- there is dialog appearing on screen showing the current volume. But mute doesn't work. Does pressing the sleep button cause the machine to sleep? No Is CPU frequency scaling supported? No sudo invoke-rc.d powernowd start shows the error required sysfs object not found. ............................................................................ The most important thing to note is that, all above things don't work under Grml Medium works fine out of box in Unbunto. Most of them are fundamental features, IMHO. Hope that future Grml Medium may include some of the above fundamental features. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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asus eeePC 1005HA and grml
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

Hello, does the grml run on asus eeepc 1005ha? Regards Dietmar

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GRML always writes a core file when shutting down/rebooting
by Hermann 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi, when I shut down/reboot my system, I get a core file written in /. Since this is happening repeatedly, there is a pretty large amount of drive space wasted. Can anyone confirm/reproduce this behavior, and does anybody know what causes this? How can I stop this? Hermann --

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