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Setting up grub into lvm and a suggestion
by Cleverson 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hello I suggest, if possible, that grml2hd detects automatically other OSes on the hard disk and sets up lilo/grub accordingly during the installation. Here I have Windows XP on the first partition - /dev/sda1 - but I don't know how to deal with lilo. I was thinking that grml2hd would prompt me for choosing grub instead of lilo, but it didn not, perhaps because I've installed grml onto a logical partition ? I know how to setup grub for dual-booting and for booting Linux into a primary partition. I guess that setting it up on a logical partition is somewhat different, since I have typed "root(hd0,5)" at the grub console in order to setup the root device to /dev/sda6, and grub has returned "unknown filesystem type". Does anyone have any tip for me? Cheers Cleverson

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[gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project
by Maurice McCarthy 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

For information only. Firefox 3 will end support for the gopher protocol. A firefox addon has been written from scratch over the last few months, as below. Regards Moss ----- Forwarded message from Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com> ----- Subject: [gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project (and other announcements) From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 06:19:30 -0700 (PDT) To: gopher(a)complete.org This message is really, really long. Here goes: ** OverbiteFF for Firefox 3: "RTM" With the release of Firefox 3 RC2, I took the wraps off OverbiteFF. This is the release version, 1.0-1381. It does have some small changes, including a bug fix for port access, additional explicit ports and CSS tweaks, so it is a recommended download if you are still using -1380. We'll see if anyone gets the joke on the build number. ;-) You can now preview the Overbite Project pages. There are HTTP and Gopher versions: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/ (These are not publicly announced yet, but you can access them.) The HTTP and Gopher pages are largely drawn from the same data store, so people will get mostly the same views. Additional language packs are still being accepted from translators and I will gladly add them to OverbiteFF 1.1. ** Calling for OverbiteFF skins If you are or you were making your own skin for OverbiteFF, I would love to host them. I think this would give people something fun to play with -- I know Avery wanted some interface changes: Avery, did you come up with something of your own? The skins folder is here: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/files/skins I'm going to be playing with this a little myself, but I'd love some community contributions. ** Mozilla Gopher activism When Firefox 3 is released, I will be putting the FF3 add-on up to the Mozilla official add-ons site, and then petitioning bug #388195 for one of the following: - Permission to backport the JavaScript to Core and then the add-on can go away. I am doubtful, however, that this would be permitted given the response by Brendan Eich. However, it had been suggested before. or, - Get the add-on into the release notes for FF4. I don't see how they could regard this as unreasonable. The other thing that will need to be done is to remind them that Gopher support must stay in 1.9. This was stated by Brendan in the thread. I'll notify the list to watch this bug when I start making announcements there to make sure they keep to it. ** Firefox 2 version (and later Camino 1.6 version) For Firefox 2.0 owners, now that the FF3 version is finalized, I am working on backporting it to 2.0.0.14. This should actually not take very long; if I did it right, there should be only two or three areas that need changing. I hope to have an FF2 beta within a couple of weeks. FF2 will use the same language packs as FF3. The Camino version will follow but there are some additional technical issues due to that browser's very limited add-on support. Skins should also work in FF2, but some of the Cairo-based rendering will probably not. ** bucktooth 0.2.5 Finally, bucktooth 0.2.5 should be released later today or this weekend with some important fixes, so stay tuned. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com -- Born free. Taxed to death. ------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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experiences with dell inspiron 530
by Henning Sprang 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi, Some experiences with grml 1.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530(nvidia chipset and graphics system) and a generic issue: when running grml-x with a module option, but without windowmanager, it complains that the windowmanager with the name of the module doesn't exist. I'd expect it just says "you didn't specify a windowmanager", but instead it seems to try to take the last argument as windowmanager name. As of the hardware support for inspiron: grml-x doesn't get an x system loaded - until I start it one time with the -fallback option. _after_ this one start with fallback, I can start it again, without fallback - and then I get a better resolution and can work without the screen-scrolling that happens in fallback mode. Let me know if you need and hints or info on the system. Henning

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Re: [Grml] How To Change Voice Language?
by Cleverson 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Hi Michael and all As I said earlier, I'm trying to change the ESpeak voice language to Brazilian Portuguese in grml. I made some changes to /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, then restarted speechd-up successfully using the nice command, but the language remains English. I uncommented the line 78 in speechd.conf, and changed "en" to pt. It looks like this: DefaultLanguage "pt" Then I did the same for line 156 that now looks like this: LanguageDefaultModule "pt" "espeak" Does anyone knows what I am missing? Many thanks Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

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Re: [Grml] Install on LVM: some questions
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Michael wrote: > # mount | grep mapper > /dev/mapper/x61-grml2hd on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=3Dremount-ro) > /dev/mapper/grml-crypt_home on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime) > [...] > > I've all the partitions on LVM. :) Thanks. I've read that xfs and reiserfs have better performance than ext3 in general. Do you have any experience with another fs than ext3? Would you recommend any filesystem in particular? Cheers Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

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Re: [Grml] How To Change Voice Language?
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Michael wrote: > > I know that the ESpeak synthesiser has portuguese voices. I have > > changed the default language from "en" to "pt" in > > /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, but what else do I need to do > > after saving that file? > > Did you restart speechd? I'm not sure which commands should I type to do that. I echoed the following ones, but speech did not come back: sudo killall speech-dispatcher sudo speech-dispatcher sudo speechd-up Thanks for helping Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

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Install on LVM: some questions
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Hi all I have one only HD, and was thinking of using LVM to install GRML to one or more logical partitions. But I've read that such setup is more likely to have problems regarding boot and files corrumtion. If someone has installed the entire system onto logical partitions, could please tell whether or not it's really more dangerous? Is it worth to give it a try? Also, I wouldn't like to lose any performance. Is there any slow down in any way? Last for now: during the installation process, does grml2hd allow to place the root directory / in one partition, and /home in another? Many thanks and congratulations for your nice distro. Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho

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How To Change Voice Language?
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Hello I need to use software speech in grml. I have activated speech successfully, but I'd like to change the synthesiser language to Brazilian Portuguese, my native language. I know that the ESpeak synthesiser has portuguese voices. I have changed the default language from "en" to "pt" in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, but what else do I need to do after saving that file? Thanks for any tip Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho) Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o Ãºnico sem limite de espaÃ§o para armazenamento! http://br.mail.yahoo.com/

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Adding a program to grml-medium on USB-stick
by Hubert Gabler 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Hello, following your excellent instruction I installed grml-medium on a USB-stick thus eliminating the need to insert the grml CD whenever I want to do some minor data manipulations. For backing up partitions I use partimage, but unfortunately this program is not included in grml-medium. I have to "apt-get update" and "apt-get install partimage" each time I want to use it. Is there a way to permanently install this program (or any other) on the USB-stick? Hubert

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Re: [Grml] Speakup Softsynth not talking with grml 1.1
by Ernst-Dieter Wedekind 29 Mai '08

29 Mai '08

> Hm, is there any chance that you provide the output of "cat /proc/cmdline" > and > "px auxwww" after booting your problematic harddisk installation? > Maybe it's possible for you to access the box via SSH? > > When accessing the box via SSH please try to execute the following > commands: > > /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start > echo sftsyn > /proc/speakup/synth_name > aumix -w 90 -v 90 -p 90 -m 90 > nice -n -20 speechd-up > > Does this help? (Capturing the output of all the commands would help > us in debugging the problem as well.) > > regards, > -mika- > -- > http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins > http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge > http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog Hi Mika and listers, I got it solved now! it was very simple! I didn't think of having to be root to start speech. I thought it might be as simple as with the cdrom where the user doesn't matter! Sorry for troubling You with such a simple thing! Ernst

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