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"speakwith" script
by Charles Hallenbeck 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Hi people, I think I just sent a private message which ought to have gone to the list. I have been using a script called "speakwith" which takes as an argument a synth name as defined by speakup, including none, sftsyn, and all the HW synth names. It assumes speech-dispatcher has already been run, but that could easily be modified if anyone wants to do that. I place it in /usr/local/sbin so that it must be run as root. It works great for me, and might be useful as an add-on to grml. The script is available from: http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh/speakwith It is pretty well documented. Oh yes, I should mention that at the end of the script it invokes "speakupconf load" to restore synth settings Thant have been saved with that utility, available in the speakup source directory somewhere. Enjoy. And Mika, thanks for a great product. It has saved my ass a couple of times here (or "neck" if you prefer) Regards, Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (35% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh

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nVidia video hardware autodetection bug
by Mark 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

OK, I followed the advice and just tried it on a spare user machine. apt-get install nvidia-kernel-2.6.15-grml That much worked but was not the whole story. Hardware autodetection of the nVidia card seems to be a problem. My current impression is that GRML does not detect it or set it up properly. At boot time, grml-x creates /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Now as a test, I ran nvidia-xconfig by hand, which creates its own /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Then I rebooted. That didn't work. When I rebooted, X would not start properly. So I fell back to the old xorg.conf. Even though nVidia drivers are installed, GRML 0.6-1 hardware autodetection fails to use them. Hence it could be considered a bug or missing feature in the hardware autodetection. Hardware autodetection is the reason I use GRML, and it has the best I have seen, don't get me wrong. There may well be something I am doing wrong, please forgive me if I seem obtuse or dumb, I just report what I see in terms that I understand. Thanks, Mark

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speech script for grml
by Scott Berry 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Hi Mica and list, Got the speech working well. Now I have one question. I have a script for making Speakup talk. I get as far as speech dispatcher and then it peeters out. How do I tell Zsh to sleep or wait a few seconds before envoking the rest of the command. Also is there any special syntax I must use to echo the synth-name to /proc/speakup/synth_name in this script? This will also hold my prefered speech settings also. I did do a chmod 777 to this file which is located in /usr/bin/sws. Thanks for the help. -- Scott Berry electronicman1961(a)myfreedombox.com Check out my lazy web doodle at: http://www.myfreedombox.com/users/electronicman1961/ Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. www.freedombox.info

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still having problems with software speech on Grml
by Scott Berry 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

Hello lists, I am still having problems with Speakup on Grml. I did the following: "echo sftsyn > /proc/speakup/synthname" and then I did: "speechd-up" this did not start the synth talking. I have 128Mb of memory on the Toshiba laptop with a 512Mb swap partition. Any ideas as to why this won't work? Is it a memory issue? -- Scott Berry electronicman1961(a)myfreedombox.com Check out my lazy web doodle at: http://www.myfreedombox.com/users/electronicman1961/ Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. www.freedombox.info

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nVidia in a boot anywhere system
by Mark 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

GRML 0.6-1 and GNOME 2.12 on a portable USB drive. It must boot "any" PC. About installing nVidia. Is it dangerous for this user scenario? Will such a system ONLY boot machines that have nVidia cards, or "any" PC? List exact steps to get nVidia support. GRML repository has nVidia stuff but kernel replacement has me worried. Better safe than sorry...so I ask questions. Thanks for the advice. Mark

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grml and forensics
by Kevin Jones 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Hello, I'm in a college computer forensics class. The students are all using the nopix helix live cd and most of the tools are gui. Was wondering what grml had for forensics, or what some users have done in that area. I'm hoping grml on a pendrive so i can install additional packages is a good solution. Pendrive problems, I bought the sandisc minicruiser and found they have a hidden partition with their launchpad program so you cant boot into grml from the drive. Have any users had this problem? Also, how can I make the grml live cd boot up talking with software speech without entering the bootup options? With nopix becomming so popular among computer professionals, it's great to see grml providing similar capabilities to blind users. Kevin

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Improved favicon
by Christian W. Zuckschwerdt 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hi, a big thanks to the grml team. I just love it! A little of my love for grml is at http://darkride.net/grml/ Since the current favicon.ico doesn't scale that nicely I created a 16x16 one. Please have a look and copy one if you like it. I don't claim any copright, you can even omit credits. cu, Christian

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sk98lin or sky2
by Harald Dunkel 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hi folks, Would it be possible to either include either Marvell's current sk98lin driver, or the sky2 driver? This would be helpfull to support the Yukon2 NIC. The sk98lin in 2.6.15 is way too old to support modern hardware. Many thanx Harri

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new grml releases available: grml 0.6 and grml-small 0.2
by Michael Prokop 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

Hoi! I'm proud to be able to present new grml releases: grml 0.6 with codename Winterschlapfn and grml-small 0.2 with codename Corry are available. For more information regarding grml 0.6 take a look at: http://grml.org/files/README-0.6.txt For more information regarding grml-small 0.2 take a look at: http://grml.org/files/README-0.2-small.txt Download: http://grml.org/download/ Thanks to all of you who helped to improve grml! Happy hacking and enjoy grml! regards, -mika- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers grml-solutions http://solutions.grml.org/

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Re: [Grml] grml 0.6 pre
by Michael Prokop 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

* chw(a)macmail.com <chw(a)macmail.com> [20060122 00:15]: > grml 0.6 pre : grml usb2 nofb - the same as before Please boot with: nofb usb2 and *not* with: grml usb2 nofb > grml 0.5 ; grml usb2 fbset -i -it works same as only grml usb2. Please boot with: grml usb2 and run 'fbset -i' in console *afterwards* then (when booting finished). > For my grml2hd can i install grml 0.5 and with a apt-get > dist-upgrade i get grml 0.6 -but also vesafb-tng is replaced by > normal vesafb ??? If you don't upgrade the kernel, you won't lose vesafb-tng. Upgrading to grml 0.6 (see http://grml.supersized.org/archives/136-update-to-grml-0.6.html for more details) won't touch your kernel and upgrading the kernel isn't necessary basically. Only if you run 'apt-get install linux-image-2.6.15-grml' you will get the current kernel from grml 0.6 including vesafb-tng. regards, -mika- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers grml-solutions http://solutions.grml.org/

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