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problems with speech, both 64 and 32 bit versions.
by Doug Smith 05 Okt '08

05 Okt '08

Ok, I hate to do this, but here goes. The other night, I downloaded both the new latest devel releases and burned them, hoping to switch this machine over to text-based. Here's what happened with the speech in both versions. First of all, this machine's a 64-bit one, so I tried the 64-bit version of the latest devel release. boot the computer with the disk in it. I kept them separate so that I would know that the one I was starting out with was the 64-bit version. grml swspeak when the disk stops spinning for the first time. The boot procesSmith, you might just have it. Well, I did get it, but what I got was not what I wanted. This was the flite Kal voice coming on with the simple, but rather non-informative message: Fatal Error Setting Up Software Speakup. Well, blast it. I might not get to switch my system over that night. I would have enjoyed that couple of hours when it comes to configuring my system, but not this time. Well, after a little longer, the flite program spoke again. Finished Booting. What is the setup that allows the flite program to speak even if the speakup fails? Well, since it spoke again, I thought I would try it anyway and see what I get. swspeak Sorry, software synthesizer not available, did you boot with swspeak bootoption? Well, of course, I did, but the system is unaware of it. Funny, but I'll try it out. espeak That gets part of the trick done, but not all. Espeak simply echoes all of my commands, so no results from them, except to know that something did, indeed, go horribly wrong. Well, I don't believe this. kill the espeak process to keep it from blocking my terminal. Now, I know that there are actually two software synthesizers, if not more, available, so don't give me that meaningless message. dmesg | espeak This was the only way I could think of to attempt to determine what was going wrong. All I heard was information about configuring and activating every component from the microprocessors to the disk drive and the usb ports, but nothing about an abnormality with speakup. Well, now, 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine, but I'm not going to my lady friend's room and disturb her to borrow her machine, and, besides, this would change another variable in my experiment and I just wanted to know what was happening here. boot the computer with the disk in it. I use the other one this time. grml swspeak Well, the first boot attempt falls flat on its face as the message about ossaudio failing to open an output device. Why is speakup or something still trying to use oss? ALSA, I thought, had become the standard a few years ago. The second boot came up talking. Great!!! However, I'm not going to run 32-bit stuff on here even though I know it will work, at least in part. Now, we've got speech, and it's working reasonably well. Now, fire up elinks and head for a few favorite web sites. It works reasonably well, and I am beginning to ponder the possibilities of using this stuff till the 64-bit one works. Then it happens. Instead of going to another web site, we crash land and explode into flames in glitchville. Speech crashes, and nothing but a reboot will remedy the problem. It worked for a couple of minutes, and I am not sure what kinds of diagnostics might determine the nature of the problem. Anyway, I'm on this thing without speech, and that can be potentially dangerous, especially for the already-installed file system, which I'm using right now to write this. Well, this is the best I can do at present for a but report, since it is the programming I definitely need that caused the problem. I hope this helps in some way and this can be fixed in the 64 and 32 bit versions in the next devel releases or in the rc versions. Hope this helps. Doug Smith

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When will the next release be out, and will the 64-bit version include speech?
by Doug Smith 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, I have been waiting for the new release. I mentioned the spelling problem in the earlier version, and I know that that has all been fixed. However, I have bought a new 64-bit machine since that time, and have had to go to a graphical distribution. It works ok, but I really miss all of my command line favorites. I wish to know when the next release of grml will be availalble. I would also like to know if the new 64-bit version will work with software speech. I tried the current amd64 version, but got neither speech nor sound when running the following: at boot: grml swspeak The system seems to boot ok, but, when it stops, I run swspeak I hear the disk spin, but there is no speech nor is there any sound. It seems to have something to do with the audio on this machine, because the listings of all the controls in aumix indicate that most of the volume settings such as mic, pcm, phin, phout, and more are missing. The only thing I can really tell you about this machine, since I do not know hardware all that well is that it is a Compaq Presario f-700 laptop with a dual-core 64-bit amd processor. The video, which I do not nor cannot use is nvidia or something like that. I do know what kind of sound hardware is on here. Is there anything I am doing wrong. Please help me return from the graphical nightmare world. Thanks. Doug Smith

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JFYI: Migration from Mercurial to Git
by Michael Prokop 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, Over the last few weeks the grml team evaluated the distributed version controll system Git. Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. The migration from Mercurial to Git took place in the last few days. By today (1st of october 2008) the grml mercurial repositories are deprecated and the official place for grml's sources is: http://git.grml.org/ As usual we provide documentation about our setup and tools: http://grml.org/git/ Further information like reasons for the migration are available at: http://grml.org/2008/10/01/ Special thanks to Michael Gebetsroither for his work and help on migrating. 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 #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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JFYI: grml development mailinglists moved
by Michael Prokop 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, I just want to inform you that we just migrated some mailinglists from mlmmj to mailman: | Bugs-changes bug reports in the grml bug tracking system | Git-commits source changes at grml - the Git VCS | Grml-live ISO build reports of daily.grml.org | Grml-testing-changes changes in the grml Debian repository The archives and the list of subscribed members have been migrated to their new home. See http://ml.grml.org/ for more information. Notice: this does *NOT* involve the grml mailinglist I'm writing this message to, it's just the devel lists mentioned above. If you encounter any problems don't hesitate to contact us. Special thanks to Alexander Wirt for his infrastructure work. regards, -mika-

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grml-debootstrap misc questions
by T o n g 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, Several misc questions regarding grml-debootstrap... - Does debootstrap download packages? If yes, where does it place downloaded packages? - Since grml-debootstrap also install packages defined in /etc/debootstrap/packages into the chroot system, is it a good idea to bind mount /var/cache/apt/archives into the chroot system as well, so as to save the downloading and cleaning up? - furthermore, I think over 99% people would have same apt/sources.list and apt/preferences in host and chroot system. If so, would it be a good idea for the same bind-mount option bind mount /etc/apt/sources.list & /etc/apt/preferences into the chroot system as well? - is it a good idea to pre-seed package configurations with dpkg --set-selections thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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bts difficulites
by T o n g 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi mika, I tried to submit a bts to grml Bug Tracking System <submit(a)bugs.grml.org> yesterday. I made 3 attemps (across 7 hours), but today when I check, my bts is still not in the system. I cc you @ mika(a)grml.org in my last 2 attemps. Could you check for me what I'm doing wrong please? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Change Speech language according to the lang cheat-code
by Cleverson 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hello all I don't know if there is time enough to add this feature for the next GRML stable release. Anyways, here is my request: Whenever one chooses a language at the boot prompt by issueing the lang cheat-code, and then issue swspeak too, it would be nice if the ESpeak synthesiser came speaking in that specified language. In my case it would be Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR). I don't have technical skills enough to submit a patch, but I'm almost sure it can be done editing both "/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf" and "/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf" files. Many thanks Cleverson

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new devel release and debconf-get-selections
by T o n g 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi Mika: Just saw that there are new devel releases available as of yesterday. Congratulations, and thanks for the hard work. One quick question, would it be possible for you to make available the output of debconf-get-selections of grml-medium somewhere on the net please? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Bugreport zshrc+acpi
by Kai Wilke 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

Hallo People, found error in /etc/zsh/zshrc of grml-etc-core-0.3.49. line 948: --- if [ "${PERCENT%%%}" -lt 20 ]] ; then +++ if [ "${PERCENT%%%,}" -lt 20 ]] ; then acpi output: Battery 0: Full, 100%, design capacity 65120 mAh ^ My Host: i386 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Vanilla kernel 2.6.25.10-k7 acpi-1.1-2 mfg Kiste -- ####################################################################### Netzworkk grml - Linux Live CD fuer Sysadmins Kai Wilke http://grml.org kiste(a)netzworkk.de http://www.netzworkk.de http://netzworkk.berlios.de

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installing dhcpcd requires removing grml packages
by Peter 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hi I would like to say: aptitude install dhcpcd but aptitude wants to remove pump which in turn want to remove : grml grml-autoconfig grml-debugtools grml-etc grml-x grml2hd This seems like a lot of change. Is it possible to use dhcpcd without making grml unstable ? Also, I was wondering, according to various threads I read, if dhcpcd is not superior to pump, so why has it not been selected for the distribution ? Thank a lot Peter

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