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RE: Emacspeak
by Jeff 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

I have low vision. In past versions of grml, I was able to use text to speech easily. I loaded 1.0 last weekend. I couldn't get the setting set correctly. I looked at the wiki but I was still unable to get it working. Does 1.0 only include and support speakup? Is emacspeak still available. Thank you for your assistance and the great distribution, Jeff _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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[Grml] I'm back, and which file contains the default sound settings?
by Doug Smith 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Ok, I have a real good one here. Which file contains the default settings which are used to bring up the sound system when the grml system starts? The reason I am asking this, is, that, this machine has an internal microphone in it, and, when you run swspeak, the thing comes on along with the speakers, resulting in an absolutely aweful, ear-splitting shriek. Well, it also causes another funny side effect. When this happens, I am, then, not able to manipulate the settings of the sound system to set it right. It takes me several tries to get into my system, and it absolutely freaks the people on my hall out, including my roommate. Well, if I can find this file, I can set it up such that the mic does not come on when the speakers do. Thanks for the info. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST

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Wishlist item: yeahconsole
by Marcus Blumhagen 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Hello, first of all I'd like to thank the devs for providing one of the best, if not *the* best, linux live system I have come across to date. I like the very good default configurations for the applicatins I have used so far. Especially I like how you made GNU/screen and zsh shine. I had to adapt those configs for my Debian box, since the usability is greatly improved. Also it was the first time I have ever used zsh and thanks to your work I now have a shell on steroids :). I use it as my default login shell on any system I can get it. I can never live without it anymore. You've got it alright when saying: "zsh rocks." :) But I am missing a tiny application, which for me greatly improves my experience of using the X environment. It is called 'yeahconsole' [1], a drop down terminal emulator which is capable of embedding an xterm or an urxvt. By using it together with GNU/screen I could reduce the number of open urxvt windows to just one. And there is no need to retag the x-terminal window (or make it sticky) just because one wants one GNU/screen session on all workspaces. By default one can toggle its visibility by the shortcut CTRL-MOD-Y and it is reachable from every virtual dektop or workspace. It is of course very customisable through Xresources and has a full screen mode too (MOD-F11 by default), so one is able to get a nice fullscreen high resoultion terminal under X even beyound the limitations of the textmode console. And last but not least its installed size is <100KB. Or maybe there is something similar already in grml? I have checked [2] but there seems to be nothing. I have search that list for kuake, yeahconsole, tilda and yakuake since those are the alternatives I know about on a Debian system. But in the lack of more fantasy what to search apt-cache for, I might have missed one. [1] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/yeahconsole [2] http://grml.org/files/release-1.0/dpkg_list Again, thanks a lot for grml and kind regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." -- Albert Einstein

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virtualize Grml
by henry atting 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hi all, is it possible to install grml to a virtual machine with VirtualBox? I tried so, that means I created a virtual image, booted the grml iso image under VirtualBox, then typed grml2hd on a console but got the error message: No hard disk found I created some images already in a similiar way (debian, ubuntu) but obviously somethings missing this time ... Regards, henry -- http://www.literaturlatenight.de

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Virtualize Grml
by henry atting 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hi all, is it possible to install grml to a virtual machine with VirtualBox? I tried so, that means I created a virtual image, booted the grml iso image under VirtualBox, then typed grml2hd on a console but got the error message: No hard disk found I created some images already in a similiar way (debian, ubuntu) but obviously somethings missing this time ... Regards, henry -- http://www.literaturlatenight.de

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VirtualBox and Grml
by - Tong - 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hi, I remember while browsing planet.grml.org the other day, I saw one grml developer (mika, was it you?) highly praised the VirtualBox, stating that it is even faster than VMware. This get me very excited. Can someone give me some 101 introduction to VirtualBox, because I found most VirtualBox articles are for Ubuntu. Moreover, seems VirtualBox need to be compiled from source [1]. Can we have a VirtualBox package in grml? Also "before installing VirtualBox, your Linux OS has to satisfy some software requirements: in particular, you will need libxalan-c, libxerces-s and version 5 of libstdc++. Unfortunately, these packages are found under different names in the repositories of various Linux distributions so installing them will most likely cause problems" [2]. Can we straight things up in grml as well? thanks [1] http://www.go2linux.org/node/54 [2] http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/VirtualBox-Review-47550.shtml -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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grml2hd - Grml Hd Installation
by - Tong - 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hi, I used to use grml2hd after booting off grml, but today I tried the grml2hd from the chroot. I think nobody has ever done this before. I'm just trying to see if I can get it working. If so, I could do the Grml HD installation then system customization from within my current system, so that I could have almost zero down time. Here are some issues/questions regarding grml2hd. - I think the document (http://grml.org/grml2hd/grml2hd.html) is not up-to-date with the script. E.g., I didn't find the switch "--noninteractive" documented. - I saw that the script is trying to duplicate the whole /dev directory. Is this still necessary? -- this is not a question but a request for explanation, because I thought udev would take care of populating the /dev directory on the fly. - now to the issue of using grml2hd from the chroot itself. It didn't work for me. It almost failed to copy over anything: cp: cannot stat `backups': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `boot': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `cdrom': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `dev': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `etc': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `floppy': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `home': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `initrd': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `lib': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `media': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `mnt': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `none': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `opt': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `root': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `sbin': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `selinux': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `swap': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `usr': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `var': No such file or directory UTSL reveals that it might cause by the 1st line, "cd /UNIONFS", in the copy_files function. Can we do something about it? I mean do something to make it chroot friendly? Further, my currently grml was first grml2hd'ed from grml ver0.7, and there is no /UNIONFS mount point or directory in my current system. I guess I can't use grml2hd to dupe my currently grml to another HD as well, can I? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Number of partitions for sata limitation lifted?
by - Tong - 26 Aug '07

26 Aug '07

Hi, A while back, I discussed the problem why Linux can only see 15 partitions on my sata HD. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/844/focus=847 Just now I saw there's a guy saikee puts 145 operating systems on 145 partitions. So I'm wondering if the limitation for the number of partitions for sata HD has been lifted or not in grml, or it is only justlinux that allows doing so. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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tomcat5.5 server on grml1.0 hd install?
by Lars Schimmer 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Another "silly" question: Has anyone installed tomcat5.5 on a grml HD install? I installed sun-java-sdk 6 and updated java alternatives. Afterwars I installed tomcat5.5 (-admin, -webapps). But instead of a running tomcat5.5 (like it is told in the man/Readme.DEBIAN), tomcat won't start at all and logfiles are empty :-/ 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 iD8DBQFGzqDwmWhuE0qbFyMRAiC/AJ9adt95iVsVC/X8I5ejVD4PIgpS1QCfS3se mqaSoPCv5IXca8D71V8MfBw= =pFKb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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xorg does not have extension for dpms option
by - Tong - 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Hi, My newly installed xorg doesn't support dpms any more: $ xset dpms force off server does not have extension for dpms option xset: unknown option force Which package should I install to get back the functionality? thanks PS my xorg: xserver-xorg: Installed: 1:7.1.0-16 -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Re: [Grml] Why does the speech system like to spell instead of readwords?
by Martin McCormick 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Michael Prokop writes: > No, that's not an option (due to maintenance and space reasons) for > us, sorry. Especially as speakup (which provides the speech feature) > does not work any longer with kernels >=2.6.22. Let's see what > future will bring us. I certainly understand. I did subscribe to the announcement list in case either a different speech engine is used or there is some other way that software speech becomes an option again in grml. In the mean time, it looks like the last Oralux disk works properly on the laptop in question but I sure would have rather used a Debian-based distribution since all my other Linux systems are pure Debian. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

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Problems booting GRML via fromhd
by Philipp Richter 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hi, We use GRML as rescue system on our machines. The /boot partition (which sits on a software raid1) of the main system includes the GRML-Kernel, initrd and squashfs so in case someone unintentionally removes libc6 or does some other bad things it's possible to recover the machine via the grml boot option in grub. the good thing is that this works if the /boot partition is on ide devices because the ide drivers are compiled into the kernel and the raid code in the kernel autostarts the raid. the bad thing: it doesn't work with our new dell boxes with mpt fusion controllers. the second problem here is that these boxes don't have ps/2 keyboard connectors and grml doesn't recognise the usb keyboard when it puts me into the rescue shell ... argh. here is what i did to fix these problems: - when grml loads the usb kernel modules it also tries to insmod usbhid.ko but this one has unknown symbols because ff-memless.ko has to be loaded first. so i copied ff-memless.ko to the initrd and added it to the list of usb.modules. cool. now i have a keyboard. - the next thing was that the sysfs-scsi-detection code did not find my fusion mpt controller. after reading /modules/scsi/scsi-modules.txt i knew why: because it was missing from there. after adding the entries for it i ended with a correctly detected controller but without a raid. how is the scsi-modules.txt file created? by hand? maybe it would be better to generate it from /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.{dep,pcimap} because in these files the mpt drivers where referenced ... - ok so after having the devices i needed to start the raid1 to access the filesystem. unfortunately there is no mdadm in the initrd image of grml so i had to compile a static version of mdadm and put it in /static. after this i added some code to assemble all arrays in case there exists a boot option fromhd=/dev/md* ok so now everything works. great! btw: grml is a really cool tool cheers, -- : Philipp Richter Tel +43-1-8178292-51 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com :

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VMware tools on grml guest OS
by Lars Schimmer 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I setup a grml 1.0 VMware server host system and a few grml 1.0 vmware guest systems til yet. But the time on the guest systems runs absolutely wrong, so I try to install the vmware-tools packages on the guests. I grabbed VMware workstation and grabbed VMwareTools-6.0.0-45731.tar.gz out of them. Now I try to install these tools on the guests systems with 2.6.20, but every kernel module fails to built. The any-any patch is just for the host, not for the guests. Anyone managed to built the vmware-tools kernel modules on grml 1.0 guests? 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 iD8DBQFGypclmWhuE0qbFyMRAhf+AJ0RdzV+IaBqaCWcAhc+/BTSdO9IYACffhH8 5emBIphKBopEiHYOOBBZbuY= =ELSa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Chroot using
by Frank Lehmann 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hello everybody, the other day I wanted to use "chroot" to access a XFS-partition (hda2) from grml, but it did not work. The failure notice was: "chroot: cannot run command '/bin/zsh': No such file or directory". True, zsh was not installed on the partition I tried to get chrooted - but is that necessary? And if yes, can I switch to another shell? (Entering the word "bash" before trying to chroot leads to the same result.) PS: Of course I am riding the "Meilenschwein"... :-) Thanks in advance, Frank

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Re: [Grml] Why does the speech system like to spell instead of readwords?
by Martin McCormick 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

"Tom Moore" writes: > The reason for Speakup spelling words has to do with the preempt kernel > option being turned on in the default Grml kernel. > If you compile a kernel with the Grml sources and turn this option off > this > will go away and Speakup will operate as you expect. I am quoting a message from the archives that was posted last March. I downloaded the live CD grml_1.0.iso image and am experiencing this very problem with software speech. Before reen venting any more wheels than necessary, is there any ISO image of this live CD that has the kernel compiled without the preempt option turned on? Does this, itself cause any other side effects? I am not afraid of building kernels but haven't built any ISO images before other than to use mkisofs to enshrine directories on a CDROM. Another idea might be to have 2 kernels on the live CD and boot from, say, grml or grml-alt. Judging from the present size of this image, there might not be enough room for that, but it is a thought. I tested the live CD on a Dell Enspiron2600 with a 1-gig Celeron CPU and 256-megs of RAM, and a ten-year-old Gateway Pentium with only 64 megs of ram and a 400-MHZ processor. Both had the spelling torture response and, surprisingly, both spoke at about the same speed. The Gateway probably would have worked just fine if not for the preemption issue. It probably wouldn't have had much memory left over for doing work with just the 64 megs. The laptop delivered little bursts of good speech and then lapsed in to slow spelling any time it was doing other work such as scrolling the screen. Thanks for any advice. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

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Upgrading Grml-Small0.4 HD install
by - Tong - 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi, Ever since I did 'apt-get upgrade' in my Grml-Small v0.4 HD install, I can't use 'shutdown now' or 'reboot' properly any more. E.g., reboot will complain that '/etc/init.d/grml-reboot' not found. I looked into the problem, learned that /etc/init.d/grml-reboot is from grml-etc, but I have grml-etc installed. Finally I found that somehow the 'apt-get upgrade' installed the '/etc/init.d/grml-reboot' file as '/etc/init.d/grml-reboot.dpkg-new'. I don't understand why apt-get/dpkg is doing this, ie, deliberately breaking my working system. I remember lots of packages have been updated, I don't know how many those .dpkg-new files are out there breaking my system. So, - how to fix the problem? - how to prevent it from happening again? thx a lot -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Installing X in Grml-Small0.4 HD install
by - Tong - 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Hi, I've done Grml-Small v0.4 HD install, and now I want to install X to it. when I 'apt-get install grml-x', I was informed that 'acpid grml-autoconfig grml-etc hwinfo libhal1 libhd13 rungetty' packages will be installed. The problem is the acpid: Setting up acpid (1.0.4-7.1) ... Loading ACPI modules.... Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon...acpid: invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed. As the consequence: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grml-autoconfig: grml-autoconfig depends on acpid | apmd; however: Package acpid is not configured yet. Package apmd is not installed. dpkg: error processing grml-autoconfig (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grml-etc: grml-etc depends on grml-autoconfig; however: Package grml-autoconfig is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing grml-etc (--configure): dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grml-x: grml-x depends on grml-etc (>= 0.5-20); however: Package grml-etc is not configured yet. Errors were encountered while processing: acpid grml-autoconfig grml-etc grml-x Q1: How can I overcome the "acpid: invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed" problem? I continued on ("grml-x -force -nostart fluxbox"), but startx failed with font fixed not found. I used to solve such problem by installing xfonts-75dpi, but noticed that there is no such xfonts-75dpi packages any more. So, Q2: How to solve the "font fixed not found" problem? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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GRML at the Froscon 2007
by Alexander Wirt 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi folks, as you may already know Mika and I will be at the Froscon [1] in Sankt Augustin (near Bonn) in Germany which will take place on August 25th and 26th. Today I got the offer of a development/talk room for sunday. It would be nice if we could be able to give some talks and maybe some demonstations about GRML. Unfortunatly Mika and I have talk on Sunday ([2],[3]) and I also belong to the organisation team. So I would invite YOU (yes! we need you! [4]). If you use or develop GRML and if you want to show or tell others about GRML let me know so I can provide you with a slot. If you are fast I would also be able to declare you as booth personal which means a sleeping place (you need a sleeping bag) and breakfast for no cost :). Thanks in advance for your attention. [1] http://www.froscon.org [2] http://programm.froscon.org/2007/events/102.en.html [3] http://programm.froscon.org/2007/events/27.en.html [4] http://www.cumas.org/images/weneedyou.jpg -- Alexander Wirt, formorer(a)grml.org CC99 2DDD D39E 75B0 B0AA B25C D35B BC99 BC7D 020A

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serial kernel config, network and ssh
by Andri Handoko 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi Mika and Grml team, I have a request and two questions :) Request: I was just looking at "http://hg.grml.org/grml-kernel" and noticed that the link "Initial config for 2.6.22-grml64" to the kernel configuration, still have the serial configuration set to 4. CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4 CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=4 In the "grml configuration changes for 2.6.22:" link, the CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS is set to 16, and the CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS is set to 4. I was able to recompile the grml-small 0.4 kernel with CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=16 CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=8 and did the test to the serial ports. They are good to go :) Since I'm using 6 ports, I set the CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS to 8 so I don't have to create the ttyS4..ttyS7 manually. A request, can you set the CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS to 16, and CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS to 8 in the grml small, grml and grml64 kernel configurations. Thanks. Question 1: I set "/etc/init.d/ssh start" to bootlocal.last file to run ssh deamon automatically. Is there proper way to run the ssh daemon, when grml-small boots? Question 2: The PC that I'm using has an ethernet card and a wifi card build in. I also use a SMC usb-ethernet adapter. How do I set grml small when it boots up, the ethernet card is set as eth0 with static ip 192.168.xx.xx, and wifi as eth1 with dhcp, and usb-ethernet adapter as eth2 when it is plug-in. In Fedora OS, at "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/" I configured them in ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth1 and ifcfg-eth2 (usb-ethernet) files. Currently I have to run the ifconfig ethX ip_address manually. Thanks a bunch. Cheers Andri ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7

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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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