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Problem with speakup on grml 2009.10
by Michael Whapples 23 Dez '09

23 Dez '09

Hello, I have just written the grml 2009.10 CD but I notice that for some reason when I try and boot it with options for speakup with software speech output (either the swspeak option or speakup.synth=soft option) it isn't recognised. The strange thing is it seems to be that when I give an option to enable software speech output with other options then grml doesn't seem to recognise the other options either. Here is what I have done to try and check what happens and also to try and confirm it isn't me: * When this first happened I thought may be it was me doing something wrong (as I get no output at the boot screen) so I tried again but still the same result. * I have written it to another CD (at a slower speed as well) incase something has gone wrong with the CD or went wrong while writing it, still things don't work. * When I give the other options on their own they work fine (the other options are either brltty or blind) * I tried running swspeak once the booting finished and this started software speech output. * I rebooted again specifying swspeak and blind at the boot prompt (still nothing, expected from previous attempts) I then checked /proc/cmdline and dmesg to try and find out what it says I gave at the command line, none of the options I gave were there. I am now stuck as to why this is happening. Also I notice (this is on my laptop) the keyboard layout by default is not anything like I have known in the past (I believe US keyboard layout is normally the default but this has things like shift+0 as =, what on the UK keyboard is / as -, the UK keyboard ? is ?, shift+7 gives /, and a number of symbols I don't even recognise appear on other keys). Michael Whapples

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Test of Antivirus engines on GRML
by Michael Schierl 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi, I tested a few antivirus engines in the last weeks and I wanted to summarize what I found out (all engines I tested could be used on a GRML live CD which is very cool) but it seems I cannot create pages in the wiki? So, I just post the stuff here: ===== Running antivirus software on GRML 2009.10 (Hello-Wien) ******************************************************* This is a list of antivirus software that has been tested to work or not work on GRML. Fortunately, all software I tested worked on GRML 2009.10 (which was quite different when I did this test a year ago). But of course that was not GRML's fault. ClamAV ------ Clamav has the advantage it is included in grml. Unfortunately as of writing this, the scan engine is not the latest one available. You can scan anyway, a few of the newest signatures will not work, though. Update command: freshclam scan command: clamscan /mnt/somewhere Avira ----- Avira is free for non-commercial use and a free 30-day trial is available for commercial use. Personal: http://www.free-av.de/en/download/download_servers.php (Direct download: http://dlpe.antivir.com/package/wks_avira/unix/en/pers/antivir_workstation-…) Professional: http://www.avira.com/de/downloads/avira_antivir_professional.html To install: tar xfvz antivir_*.tar.gz cd antivir-* ./install When prompted (except for the license) just accept the default. Dazuko will not work because grml's kernel does not support it, but you can continue anyway. You *have* to say Y (which is default) for installing dazukofs, though (even if you don't have the kernel module), since otherwise even the on-demand scanner will not start. Before updating/scanning, start the avguard daemon: avguard start Update command: avupdate --product=Guard Scan command: avscan /mnt/somewhere F-Prot ------ F-Prot Antivirus for Workstations is available free for non-commercial use as well and as trial for commercial use. Website: http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.html Direct link: http://files.f-prot.com/files/unix-trial/fp-Linux-i686-ws.tar.gz To install: tar xfvz fp-Linux-i686-ws.tar.gz cd f-prot ./install-f-prot.pl (just accept the defaults, it will update signatures automatically when installation is finished) Scan command: fpscan /mnt/somewhere Bitdefender ----------- Bitdefender provides a Debian package (that works on GRML): http://content-down.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/pool/non-free/b/bitdefender-s… AVG --- AVG provides a Debian package (that works on GRML) as well: http://download.avgfree.com/filedir/inst/avg85flx-r290-a2950.i386.deb Avast and Panda --------------- Avast provide download for trial versions for their Linux products only by e-mail. So, if you really want to try them, fill in their web forms and receive link and license file by e-mail. Avast *does* work on GRML, Panda for some reason did not send me a download link at all. Perhaps you have more luck? ;-) ===== Regards, Michael

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Re: [Grml] hibernate under grml
by chaitat 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Teesid, I know you use hibernation under grml. Do you have any idea? -- chaitat -----Original Message----- From: T o n g Sent: 11-21-2009 11:00:56 PM Subject: [Grml] hibernate under grml Hi, Anybody was able to get hibernate to work under grml? I am able to use hibernate-disk to put my laptop into hibernate mode but am not able to resume. This is a vanilla Debian system plus all the nice grml packages. Please help. I can post details what I did on request. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - Grml(a)mur.at http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/

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hibernate under grml
by T o n g 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Hi, Anybody was able to get hibernate to work under grml? I am able to use hibernate-disk to put my laptop into hibernate mode but am not able to resume. This is a vanilla Debian system plus all the nice grml packages. Please help. I can post details what I did on request. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Cannot add grub to new partition for grml.
by single.1＠netzero.com 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

I tried to install grml2hd and all worked fine until I tried to add grub to the /dev/sda16 partition and the grub install failed. Error was that I had to force the grub because it was a BAD idea to load grub that was not at the mbr???? . There is a grub-install with the grml64 live edition but it failed, too. Stephen J. Ingle Single Edition Consulting LLC Managing Member 336-449-9114(W) 336-263-2792(C) ____________________________________________________________ Healthcare Administration Earn your AA or BA in Healthcare Administration, 100% online. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/c?cp=iZrOOPtwOww3I0vZOwdIOAAAJ1…

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Re: [Grml] GRML-Medium in VirtualBox- <linux-headers-generic> obsolete.
by Ulrich Dangel 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

On Tuesday 17 November 2009 20:05:50 Vivek Sharma wrote: Hi, Please reply to the mailing list as other may have the same problem or someone else could answer your questions. > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Ulrich Dangel <schula(a)grml.org> wrote: > > On Saturday 14 November 2009 18:17:21 Vivek Sharma wrote: > > > I have installed grml-medium 2009.10 in VirtualBox on windows7. I am > > > not able to share-folder on host machine, a step before i am not able > > > to install Guest-Addition on my guest-os, i click devices>install guest > > > addition, nothing shows up. Some post said i need to install some > > > kernel-patch in grml. anyone any idea. > > > > The Virtualbox guest-additions are already available in grml. Just run as > > root: > > aptitude update > > aptitude install virtualbox-ose-guest-modules-2.6.31-grml (or grml64 if > > you > > use grml64) > > i have done this, do i have install the script after this, when you mount > the guestAddition.iso and run the script. If yes, where will that script be > stored. What script? You do not need the guestAddition.iso as everything needed is already included in debian/grml. > If no thanks. but its still not working. It should have worked. Please install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils and run: /etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose-guest-utils start or load the vbox kernel modules manually. regards, Ulrich

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Re: [Grml] GRML-Medium in VirtualBox- <linux-headers-generic> obsolete.
by Ulrich Dangel 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

On Saturday 14 November 2009 18:17:21 Vivek Sharma wrote: > I have installed grml-medium 2009.10 in VirtualBox on windows7. I am not > able to share-folder on host machine, a step before i am not able to > install Guest-Addition on my guest-os, i click devices>install guest > addition, nothing shows up. Some post said i need to install some > kernel-patch in grml. anyone any idea. The Virtualbox guest-additions are already available in grml. Just run as root: aptitude update aptitude install virtualbox-ose-guest-modules-2.6.31-grml (or grml64 if you use grml64) > how do i resolve this, is there something else i have to install, than > linux-headers-generic like linux-headers or linux-headers-2.6.31-grml It should be enough to just install the provided guest-modules. You can also build the guest modules yourself (not recommend), just install virtualbox-ose-guest-source and kernel headers for your current kernel. Then you can use module-assistent to build the virtualbox guest-additions for your current kernel. regards, Ulrich

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Re: [Grml] GRML-Medium in VirtualBox- <linux-headers-generic> obsolete.
by Maurice McCarthy 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hi The guest additions and modules need to be installed on Windows 7. grml does not know that it is inside virtual box. The virtual box site does not list a separate download for this so I think your question is better addressed to forums.virtualbox.org Good Luck Maurice -- Best Wishes -- Best Wishes

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GRML-Medium in VirtualBox- <linux-headers-generic> obsolete.
by Vivek Sharma 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

Hi all, I have installed grml-medium 2009.10 in VirtualBox on windows7. I am not able to share-folder on host machine, a step before i am not able to install Guest-Addition on my guest-os, i click devices>install guest addition, nothing shows up. Some post said i need to install some kernel-patch in grml. anyone any idea. I try sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic it says package is obsolete or is referred to by some other package. how do i resolve this, is there something else i have to install, than linux-headers-generic like linux-headers or linux-headers-2.6.31-grml thanks Vivek S

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Upgrade auf grml 2009.10
by Ch. Hanisch 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

Hallo, nach einem D-U mit folgenden Eintragungen in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.grml.org/ grml-stable main deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free bin ich immer noch auf der Version 2009.5 Wird ein Upgrade auf 2009.10 empfohlen und wie geht das? GruÃŸ Ch. Hanisch

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