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Grml Medium on Acer Aspire AS5536
by T o n g 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, This is a report of things don't work on an Acer Aspire AS5536. http://us.acer.com/acer/productv.do? LanguageISOCtxParam=en&kcond61e.c2att101=57644&sp=page16e&ctx2.c2att1=25&link=ln438e&CountryISOCtxParam=US&ctx1g.c2att92=447&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=1731859535 ............................................................................ Is X running at the correct resolution? Not sure, since xwininfo is not installed. but xrandr reports wrong resolution. 3-D Acceleration? Probably not, since glxinfo is not available/installed. Does the trackpad work? Partially. * Does it move the mouse pointer? Yes * Does the right hand side emulate a mouse scroll wheel? No * Does the trackpad single click, click & hold work? No Does the sound work? Yes, the speaker-test works. Does pressing the volume hotkeys raise, lower and mute volume? Yes for raise, lower volume -- there is dialog appearing on screen showing the current volume. But mute doesn't work. Does pressing the sleep button cause the machine to sleep? No Is CPU frequency scaling supported? No sudo invoke-rc.d powernowd start shows the error required sysfs object not found. ............................................................................ The most important thing to note is that, all above things don't work under Grml Medium works fine out of box in Unbunto. Most of them are fundamental features, IMHO. Hope that future Grml Medium may include some of the above fundamental features. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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asus eeePC 1005HA and grml
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

Hello, does the grml run on asus eeepc 1005ha? Regards Dietmar

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GRML always writes a core file when shutting down/rebooting
by Hermann 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi, when I shut down/reboot my system, I get a core file written in /. Since this is happening repeatedly, there is a pretty large amount of drive space wasted. Can anyone confirm/reproduce this behavior, and does anybody know what causes this? How can I stop this? Hermann --

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Having a way to set default X session manager
by Michael Whapples 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hello, Currently when GRML is installed to HD it creates the user home directory with a .xinitrc file with a window manager (looking closer at alternatives it seems this really should be called x session manager). This makes it impossible for a system wide default window manager to be set. I remember that slackware offered a feature where a default system window manager could be set and such a feature would be useful in GRML. Obviously should a user want to use something other than the default then they can do so by running grml-x or manually create the ~/.xinitrc file. Would it be possible to add such a feature? Michael Whapples

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Call for help: grmlzshrc.5
by Frank Terbeck 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hello grml users! You are probably aware of the fact that grml ships a pretty big zsh setup. It is quite likely, though, that nobody - including us developers - knows every function, keybinding or feature the setup implements. That's why a manpage was started for it in order to create a reference manual about the setup. A reference card for the zshrc exists already, but that is rather brief due to... well being a reference card. The basic skeleton for the manpage is ready. I described a few features and began a reference section. However. Writing a complete reference for our setup is a big and tedious task. I personally don't use the setup myself, which doesn't exactly help matters either... And there are still numerous functions, aliases, variables and options, that need to be documented. So, to cut a long story short: Help!1!! :-) No, seriously. If you are interested in helping writing that manual, please contact us at: grml-etc-core(a)grml.org ...so we can coordinate the work (and possibly avoid doubled work if a lot of people are willing to help). Every little bit would help, so don't be shy. :) In order to get a local version of the repository that keeps track of the manual do this: % git clone git://git.grml.org/grml-etc-core.git % cd grml-etc-core % git co -b zshrc5 origin/ft/zshrc5 % cd doc After that you'll see a file called grmlzshrc.t2t which is the markup source of the manpage. The markup language used is txt2tags and the needed package is just one 'aptitude install txt2tags' away. It's a pretty minimal language, that is quite easy to use - the existing content will give you a very good idea of how to achieve different things using txt2tags. To generate roff (the man-format in a .5 file) and html versions of the manual (to see what your changes look like) just run 'make' in the doc subdirectory. If you can spare a few minutes of your time to contribute, please send us a message to the aforementioned address and we'll see how to go on from there. Thanks for reading all the way down here. :) Regards, Frank - on behalf of the grml team. PS: A pretty recent generation of the html output can be seen here: <http://ft.bewatermyfriend.org/tmp/grmlzshrc.html> -- In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- RFC 1925

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grml install on SD card
by wonderer 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hy, I want to do the HDInstall to a SD Card wich is inserted in a eeePC901 SD-Card Slot. When I boot up from an USB-Stick with the grml Live-Image and choose HDInstall all seems to be Ok. But after reboot grml always failed to load (no OS found). I also tryed to install the bootmanager into partition /dev/sdd1 and MBR of /dev/sdd but no effekt. The internal SSD I do not want to have edited with the bootmanager. If I look on the SD-Card there seem to be all files. Is there a way that this could run? best regards Henrik

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hardware requirements?
by Jutta Zalud 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi! I wonder about the hardware requirements for grml and couldn't find anything in the wiki and in the mailinglist-archive so far. The reason why I am wondering is, because I have a very old laptop (IBM Thinkpad 600E, Mobile Pention II, 228 MB RAM) on which I tride to run the live CD and failed so far. There is always the same error: IO APIC resources could not be allocated. RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 4194304 invalid compressed format (err=1) Kernel panic- not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(253,0 Other live CDs work, though: Knoppix 3.7 (*not* 3.8), Sidux Chaos (dated February 2007) and even Ubuntu 9.4 Desktop. Any idea if I could make it work and how? On my more recent Ideapad S10e it boots perfectly but it seems that the built-in WLAN is not recognized (the Windows device manager says it is a Broadcom Device, I'll try to find out more) Regards, Jutta

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Help, hilfe, how can i restore..
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hello, Hallo, i need some help. I have delete a directory of my /home directory with a lot of data. Einfacher ist es für mich in deutsch zu beschreiben, was passiert ist, Sorry. Meine grml-Installation ließ sich booten, beim Booten wurde mit einer Fehlermeldung, dass der Superblock fehle, eine maintenance-shell gestartet. Da ich in einem /home Verzeichnis wichtige Daten hatte, habe ich den Rechner runtergefahren und grml vom usb-stick gestartet und die Partition /dev/hdb7 (auf der das grml installiert ist) gemontet. Warum auch immer, ich habe nach dem Mounten das Verzeichnis /home/volksbank gelöscht, anstatt es zu kopieren und zu sichern. Die Partition /dev/hdb7 habe ich seitdem nicht mehr benutzt, keine Daten darauf geschrieben, bzw. das grml-System von dieser Partition gestartet. Wie kann ich das Verzeichnis /vhome/volksbank und dessen Unterverzeichnisse und Dateien wiederherstellen? Ich bin mir nicht sicher ob ich die Partition /dev/hdb7 als ext2 formatiert habe, wie kann ich das herausfinden? Vielen Dank für Eure Hilfe und das Verständnis, dass ich hier mein Problem in deutsch beschrieben habe. MFG Dietmar Segbert

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suggested re-work of myconfig, GRMLCFG, config, debs and scripts
by Marc Haber 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Hi, this is what I recently filed in the BTS as issue715, and mika said that it may be a good idea to discuss my suggestion here as well. The interaction between GRMLCFG, myconfig, scripts, debs and config is incredibly byzantine to me. It has clearly grown, but I'd like to have some more features which would be available by a re-work of the semantics. I would like to see the following behavior implemented: - debs, config and scripts are always searched and read from the same place ($dcs-dir). Which place this is varies, depending on GRMLCFG, noautoconfig and myconfig. - debs are searched in $dcs-dir/debs. If debs=foo is given, foo is taken as a shell wildcard for the debs being installed, paths are allowed and relative to $dcs-dir. - config archives (config.tbz) are searched directly in $dcs-dir. If config=foo is given and foo is a file, that file is unpacked and its content taken as configuration archive. If config=foo is given and foo is a directory, the contents of the directory tree is copied over the live CD configuration. paths are allowed and relative to $dcs-dir - scripts are searched in $dcs-dir/scripts. If scripts=foo is given and foo is a file, that file is executed. If scripts=foo is given and foo is a directory, all files inside that directory are executed. Paths are allowed and relative to $dcs-dir. - If no GRMLCFG partition is found and noautoconfig is _not_ given on the command line, nothing is changed and the dcs files are searched within the .iso, $dcs-dir is set to the root directory within the .iso - If a GRMLCFG partition is found, $dcs-dir is set to the root of the GRMLCFG partition unless noautoconfig is set. If noautoconfig is set, $dcs-dir is set to the root directory within the .iso. - If myconfig=foo is set on the command line, $dcs-dir is set to foo, even if a GRMLCFG partition is present. I tried to craft this new behavior not to break mainstream configurations while some more exotic schemes now need different handling. It also has the advantage of having similiar definitions for scrips, debs and config which will probably allow some code to be re-used for all three cases. Please indicate whether you find this behavior acceptable and desireable. If this new behavior would break a setup you use, please say so as well. I believe this new behavior can be implemented alone by changing /etc/init.d/grml-autoconfig and/or /etc/grml/autoconfig.functions. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190

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Network booting, Terminal Server or PXE
by T o n g 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Hi Mika, Just out of curiosity, how do you compare Terminal Server and PXE? I knew the term "Terminal Server" when I knew grml, and only within the grml community. The outside world seems to be interested in PXE instead. So I like to know the reason behind why grml chose Terminal Server over PXE. Here are the homeworks I've done: The only "Terminal Server" I found on the web seems to related with KNOPPIX http://knoppix.manty.net/ http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/KNOPPIX_Terminal_Server But the original author of the wiki document, Rjent, has moved his efforts to working on something else. PXE is backed by Intel and is part of Intels(tm) Wired for Management (WfM) http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/PXE_FAQ The Linux Magazine has written a good article about 'Network Booting' http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1179 Tim Kientzle Tuesday, October 15th, 2002 in which Tim recommended PXE. Thanks PS. For those PC that has Network booting built-in capability in ROM, are they booting PXE or Terminal Server or something else? PPS. The reason that I'm asking, its very easy to test PXE booting in KVM... -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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