March 2012 - Grml - lists.mur.at

planning to switch back, a couple of questions
by Doug Smith 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Ok, and hi, there. This is Doug with a bit of good news. One of your blind grmlers is coming home. I just have to know the answers to a couple of questions, and I will give you the reason why I decided to take the nestea plunge, so to speak. First of all, I know how to start speakup on the live cd. press q and return to be sure you're out of that quick config menu and can work in the console. modprobe speakup_soft; espeakup Then hit return twice. What I want to know is this: How can I have an accessible login that will start speaking when I need to log in on a hard disk installation of grml? Don't worry, I have performed a blue billion of these and I know just how to avoid accidents. I know you do not necessarily encourage installs. The next question I have is this: What happens on a hard disk install? For example, I have everything talking when I install. Will it still be there when I reboot the installed system? If yes, then great. If not, all my work will not be in vain, grml is always better to me than that. I have always been able to get myself out of messes. My next question is: if I need to put speakup_soft start = 1 in the /etc/modules file so that it will be loaded on startup, that's no problem. The question is where do I put the startup for espeakup so that it comes up talking at the login screen? If that's not the solution, will I still have the four beeps when grml has finished booting? Now, the final question. Are there any other blind grmlers who are using edbrowse? The reason I wonder about all this is because I have found it supports javascript. I hope it will work on radio station sites and other sites with streaming media when using mplayer to actually play the media. Is this true? Will I be able to stream radio stations live, use http://www.dishonline.com, access my http://www.learningally account, play internet radio on http://www.jango.com, watch youtube videos and videos from http://www.nascar.com if I use mplayer to actually play the streams and fix this in the configuration file? I have read, over there on the speakup mailing list about people who use latex for their formatted writing projects. They say its better than any word processor on the commercial market today. How do you view the formatted results of your work with a command line program? What do you use? Well, that's about all I have to ask for now. Now, I want to tell you why I decided to finally try to come back home. In the GUI world, there are many changes going on on. Right now, it's broken this and inaccessible that. Not only that, I am sick and tired and fed up to here with graphical interfaces. I have had to use them for the last couple or three years, and that is just so unnatural to me, a person who was raised on the command line. The common response to this is: "We have had the command line since day one and we have been trying to get away from it since day two." Well, I respond this way: You have had the graphical interface since day 2 and I have been trying to get away from that since day 2.5. It is just so unnatural to go tabbing and arrowing around and alt-tabbing and shift-tabbing and control-shift-tabbing around to get an app to work. I just like the good old program options files and off it goes to do my bidding. If I can get answers to these questions, I will be coming back soon. I hope to bring some other blind people with me in the future. Well, that should do it for now. I am sure you are tired of reading my ramblings. Please get back to me as soon as possible. Sincerely yours: Doug Smith

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lynx browser and playing audio
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Hello, i have installed grml squeeze on my netbook. I use lynx as browser. If i try to play a mp3-file or an other audio-file out of lynx, the alsaplayer will be started, bat a error appears on the bootom of lynx. If i look in /tmp/user/1000/ there is a tempory file of the audio-file mit the extension ".m4a". any ideas? What can i do or what is the mechanismus of lynx to play audio and to create the file "*.m4a"? Thanks for your help. Regards Dietmar

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loop-AES removed: PANIC
by Fog_Watch 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

I downloaded Knecht Rootrecht overnight, booted it this morning and thought I'ld just check whether it still contained loop-AES. It doesn't. IT DOESN'T. AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. First, Knoppix, now GRML. PANIC. Loop-AES is fast, efficient, cool, essential and all my software and data sit on it. Breathe deeply. I'm calming down now. Please, maintainers, may I have loop-AES back? Regards Fog_Watch -- "A. Because it breaks the logical order of conversation. Q. Why is top posting bad?"

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LINUX 26 Kernel vs live 2011.12
by Everett Bennett 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Is there an easy way to install and add the linux26 kernel to the current grml-live version? Everett Bennett, Jr.

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