Dear friends at grml,
Please forgive the need for something quick, but I have no wired
connexion here and need some help.
I have have downloaded, I think, the .debs for the broadcom sta driver
to my home folder.
I need to install grml, after two years, because I did something
stupid.
Fortunat
Dear Friends at grml,
The really good news is that now my dell latitude d830 boots and runs
from the live cd, no problems.
Now, like many dell, hp products, the lovely, incomparable, almost
Kaerntnerisch' bcm 4300 series chips still really need ndiswrapper,
which means the last three lines of a b
Dear M and friends,
A bit more on the Dell Latitude D930 grml install
grml 1.1 just drops to "can't access tty job control off"
mint linux, which works perfectly except for the sound issue,
well-known, lists the dvd driver as the first scsi drive and the hdd as
the second, contrary to all other
Dear M and friends,
Just a noob question, for no reason other than neugier.
Why does debian installer, lenny, recognise both the sata and atapi cd
thing, giving the correct response to cat /proc/scsi/scsi, whereas grml
requires bootparameters ide1=noprobe and ide0=noprobe to get sata hdd
and atap
Dear Mika,
Why are you so much faster than me? TZ difference or real austrian
coffee?
Thanks for the kernel image - you have saved us all a lot of patching
and recompiling.
Wow -
-M
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 18:47 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * martin yazdzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20
Dear M,
Any ideas on the vmsplice issue? Does it affect grml users?
Best,
M
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Dear M,
Thanks - works perfectly now -
when did the "-u" switch become necessary, and what does it do, man su
does not tell me, and as you know, I represent your ignorant noob
contingent.
This is the danger in grml, that since none of the other debian boutique
distros are as well organised and f
Dear M and friends,
I tried today to play with the rc1
Following issues:
1. in attempting to su to grml to run grml-x, get "cannot find file
grml" error
2. if I run grml-x as root, all seems to be well, but then the error
"priority is -1 instead of requested -0" then nothing
3. if I change to ba
Dear Mika and friends,
So, now that I have foobarred and repaired grub a few times, has anyone
here experience with upgrading to grub2?
(shoots self in foot)
Best,
M
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Now, since you encouraged me -
When running the dist-upgrade unstable, grub, which I have installed
to the partition which I use for testing things, for obvious reasons,
reverts to calling the drives by the (hd0,0) &c, which should work fine.
However, in removing all the appended lines, includi
> mv ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.unused
> cp /etc/skel/.zshrc ~/.zshrc
Indeed, Mika, as always, you repaired the issue -
In the meantime, since that version of grub, 0.97-30 has the known bug
that running grub-update changes hdd location descriptions, the
subscibers need to know not to use that versi
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 00:59 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * martin yazdzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20080209 21:48]:
>
> > /home/yazdzik/.zshrc:[:237: too many arguments
> > /home/yazdzik/.zshrc:[:977: too many arguments
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ %
/home/yazdzik/.z
/home/yazdzik/.zshrc:[:237: too many arguments
/home/yazdzik/.zshrc:[:977: too many arguments
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ %
Dear Mika and friends,
Since you are all z shell to the core(okay, really bad pun) why do I
argue so much?
Also, the latest grub update is disastrous, as it eats the menu.lst for
Dear Mika and friends,
rc1 of 1.1 does everything just about perfectly - install is dead clean,
and, as long as one knows what sources to use, one can have a complete
desktop environment with all the bells and whistles pretty quickly.
My Dell laptop, however, and most dell latitudes, which is a h
Dear M and friends,
In order to test out a version of hplip for a new set of peripherals, I
had to remove file-rc, which I have back now.
How do I make the system boot using runlevel.conf again, so I am back in
control?
Best,
M
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Dear Friends,
Progress in understanding the issue but no solution -
after proper install of kernel 2.6.22 and initrd, the kernel cannot
find /dev/root.
googled that for some reason the new libata calls sdx hdx - okay
I did:
edit lilo to append to the .22 entry root=/dev/hda4
now, the system
Okay - found problem, no solution:
in 2.6.22, libata represents sdX as hdX, but, obviously, I cannot change
lilo.conf to root=/dev/hda4, since it gives the error that the device
does not exist, which, in fact, it does not under any running kernel.
Any ideas?
Best,
m
It is easy to make salami fr
This is progress - thanks - much further along.
now, ato boot-up we get /init... cannot find /dev/root and so on.
or, when running same kernel in debug mode, it stops at registering
raid personality something(no way to log this, sorry)
I think this means that the kernel thinks I have hda ins
Dear Friends,
On my explerimental partition, just for fun, and to test drivers, &c, I
sometimes do things either adventursome or stupid, depending upon one's
point of view.
I should like to install the grml 2.6.22 kernel, but, having installed
the image, sources, some modules I use, &c, after mk
Dear M and friends,
Can anyone think of a reason why boot hangs at:
"begin searching for root file system"
It worked yesteday, not today.
Obviously, without being able to mount /, there is no log.
Other than installing k3b, there were no changes.
Best,
m
# This file was automatically ge
>
> Oh, strange. /etc/debian_version exists on grml, so what's the
> relevant stuff that Gnome thinks that it's not Debian? :)
setting the time from the gnome clock, and service settings -
popup - the platform you are running is not supported by this tool -
not important, merely interesting
Hate to admit this, but when installing gnome, I move the apt
preferences file out of the way to be able to use the -t function
without a care, or, if lazy, set synaptic to use whatever branch we
need, then replace the file for regular use.
Best,
M
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 11:26 -0700, Mark wrote:
Dear Mark,
It is far more complicated, as dependencies are strewn about testing,
unstable, and experimental.
One has to delete or change the pin file in apt, enable all the repos
for experimental, etch, unstable and make sure they work for your area.
Then start with:
apt-get install nautilu
Dear Mika and friends,
What does work for me, ignorant noob that I am?
everything, basically - getting a complete gnome desktop is a matter of
really knowing deps, but otherwise, cool. All serious issues, drivers,
sound, ndiswrapper, xorg config worked otob.
note - one can no longer set time or
>
>> It may have to do with the compiler verions, since when I install grml
>> whatever is in unstable I get?
>
> I always (at least try to) ship the compiler version with grml that has
> been used for building the kernel. It's always the current one from
> Debian/unstable, right.
>
Right - I
>
> Well, what are you trying to do at all? :)
>
Dear Mika,
I am testing various versions of the ati driver installer.
I am not sure why the 35 does not work, as on another grml install, 34.8
worked fine, and I ran it for about a month on a testbed grml.
It may have to do with the compiler
cat: /lib/modules/2.6.18-grml/build/include/linux/version-*.h: No such
file or directory
make.sh: line 525: [: =: unary operator expected
cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...
Assuming default VMAP API
Assuming default munmap API
doing Makefile
thanks, paul and mika-
I have done so many of these lately, I forgot to check reselv.conf.
my bad, but I appreciate the willingness to help when a noobie makes a
stupid mistake...
best,
m
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:02 +, Paul Weaver wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:28:50PM -0400, mar
Dear M and friends,
Just for information, and please realise I am not complaining:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # chroot /mnt/sda4
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # apt-get update
Err http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org'
Err http://ftp.de.debian.org
Dear Friends,
We may be making a false assumption that the original writer's bios
clock is set to GMT.
If not, setting it to GMT will make chaos for dual booting windows.
For someone new to the grml way of doing things, one should note that
during the original install, when asked for a language, t
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 00:21 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * martin yazdzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061226 19:15]:
>
> > Does the enclosed have anything to do with the issue?
>
> > BUG: scheduling while atomic: Xorg/0x0001/3289
> > [] schedule+0x43/
:33 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> [Martin sent me a message offline the list that the website works on
> Windows, just double-checked it therefore and sending mail to the
> list JFTR.]
>
> * Michael Prokop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061225 12:15]:
> > * Martin Yazdzik <[
Does the enclosed have anything to do with the issue?
It seems odd that after a while, such as now, gnome works fine -
should I have avoided the xorg upgrade?
best,
m
-m
BUG: scheduling while atomic: Xorg/0x0001/3289
[] schedule+0x43/0x8f0
[] __wake_up+0x2a/0x3d
[] firegl_irq_cleanup+0
Dear Friends,
Symptoms:
login via gdm as root, no issues whatsoever
login vi gdm as yazdzik, gnome starts, then stops
no issue with fluxbox as yazdzik
what logs do I need to send so you can see what is wrong
this is a new install as of yesterday
I have deleted user and /home, so there is an i
Dear M and friends,
I know I must have done something wrong, but
http://www.nais.org/LoginPre.cfm then, trying to go to sssonline gives
me the error that iceweasel cannot connect because of a security
protocol that is not enabled.
It worked in grml 0.8, so I have somehow disabled something it
Thank you Mika - all is well -
Thanks again for the job well done - there is simply no non-functioning
aspect to this release that I have seen. I would warn against the faint
of heart using the current sid repos, but your pinning and exemplary
craftsmanship have made an almost idiot-proof instal
Dear Friends at grml,
google lilo information tends to be rather out of date, to say the least
-
since grml 0.9 works, well, just works, I need to make what was my
experimental partition my main OS.
/dev/sda1 = windows
/dev/sda2 = swap
/dev/sda3 = old grml
/dev/sda4 = new grml
currently, the l
Dear Mika and Friends,
What a boring install! Everything worked otob on my dell laptop, and
the tz config, which used to cause hair pulling was one simple command
and voila.
While I used the ati installer, which worked perfectly to get hardware
accel, and ndiswrapper, because the bcm4306 driver
Thanks, Mika.
As always, you come through with a simple and elegant answer to my blithering.
Very best wishes,
martin
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 13:54 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
* Martin Yazdzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061014 06:15]:
> hint: at first root could play the cd on to
Synptom:
xine media player, gnome cdplayer , vlc all play music cds,
totem and mplayer do not, but always did in debian and libranet
hint: at first root could play the cd on totem, then next time
"** (totem:4639): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session bus: Did not recei ve a reply. P
Thanks Robert - I have been wondering for weeks why adobe et al did not print.
The FYI is genuinely appreciated.
Best,
m
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 15:02 +0200, "Robert Zöhrer | pronet.at" wrote:
Hi,
while seeting up grml (HD-install) as my new working environmnet, I
wanted to print on my CUPS
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 15:51 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
Depends on what "simply editing by hand" means. ;)
My default/locales file now looks like:
LANGUAGE=us
#LANG=en_US.iso885915
#LC_ALL=en_US.iso885915
#LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso885915
COUNTRY=us
date shows as expected, NY time, I can set
change the values here?
Again, apologies, and I shall keep off the list, even if it means installing straight debian.
Respectfully,
Martin
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 14:49 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
* Martin Yazdzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060906 07:15]:
> Why:
> Generat
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 14:40 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
* Martin Yazdzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060907 04:15]:
> okay, the problem with the timezone issue is that grml8 thinks
> that the bios is indeed set to local time, but in Wien.
[...]
You never answered my mail regardin
My curiosity gets the better of me
start debug, date gives NY, login as root, date still gives NY. login as yazdzik, but use root terminal, date gives Wien, thus explaining why the admin mode of kcontrol does so, as it is using a different tty, so to speak.
So, now we know:
1. debug mo
Dear Mika und Freunde,
Ich bitte um tausend Mal Pardon, aber nur eines:
gestartet in debug:
date
"Wed Sep 6 22:30:30 EDT 2006"
dann, gdm,
dann gleich:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # date
Thu Sep 7 04:39:06 CEST 2006
Igendwo beim X startup liegt Irgendwas dass stoert, oder root config, als:
[
Dear mika and friends,
okay, the problem with the timezone issue is that grml8 thinks that the bios is indeed set to local time, but in Wien.
grml8:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # date
Thu Sep 7 03:09:04 CEST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # tzconfig
Your current time zone is set to America/New_York
Do you w
Dear Friends,
A most peculiar set of behaviours:
1. Using gdm, whether kde or gnome desktop, times are all correctly identified as New York.
2. Using kdm, nothing changes the settings away from Vienna, again, whether gnome or kde desktop, times are cest.
3. The settings, trash, and home f
Why:
Generation complete.
*** update-locale: Error: LANGUAGE (us) is not compatible with LC_ALL (en_US.iso885915)
dpkg-reconfigure locales 179.80s user 4.74s system 90% cpu 3:23.23 total
my environment file has no such in it.
best,
m
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On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 15:58 -0700, Mark wrote:
Labels/UUIDs are not merely preference. They can be *necessary*
Take my case - laptop travels everywhere - niece's camera, colleague's usb memory stick, daughter's boyfriend's usb hd, and so on.
Whatever the technical implementation, let me,
> works only for lo, not eth0.
> no eth0 info in /etc/network/interfaces.
Must be a problem of your own network setup. No problems here, works
as expected, sorry.
regards,
-mika-
Just a stupid question, but were this the issue, why not merely write something like
"iface eth0 inet dhcp
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:50:02 +0200, T wrote:
> Hi
>
> Currently grml does not provides the /dev/dvd link. I remember I read
> somewhere that merely adding a rule symlink to /etc/udev/rules.d/ will do.
>
> But I just can't find it any more. Any one knows about how to do it?
>
> thanks
>
> tong
Dear mika and friends,
As y ou can see from the attached, I have 3d working.
I cheated - since the xorg log error was "unable to find screen" I took my working file from grml 7 and simple copied it.
The differences are:
Working:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
# Mo
Dear Mika and Friends,
Okay, as you read in the other thread, I now have fglrx with working 3d hw
accel.
I dare not, however, boot out of old grml into new, because new grml is
convinced that my hw clock is set to gmt. Since this is a laptop, I need to
boot into new grml and tell it that my
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 08:06, Lars Schimmer wrote:
>
> I think I´ve got 3d hardware running, because glxinfo ist really fast.
> Before installing it right, glxgears was damned slow.
> And fgl_glxgears is fast, to.
Thanks - according to your attachment'
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 scree
Dear Friends,
Many thanks to Lars for the files.
Lars has the driver working, but not the kernel modules for 3d.
I can, with no effort, have the fglrx driver for 2d.(never been an issue -
perhaps I was unclear - by "working, I mean a full module load with
functional 3d, nothing less, since t
grml2hd was without any problem whatsoever, except for ghe fglrx driver -
I shall try two or three solutions and write back, but grml-x should work
to produce a valid working 3d system if at all possible.
Well, that is a big "if" ;)
best,
M
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# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs20572112 9643504 9883580 50% /
/dev/root 20572112 9643504 9883580 50% /
/dev/root 20572112 9643504 9883580 50% /dev/.static/dev
tmpfs10240 1
Dear Friends,
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 04:26, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Martin Yazdzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060815 10:20]:
.
>
> Just because of personal interest: doesn't the bcm43xx driver work
> for you?
Idiot newbies on serious lists are at least amusing - sorry
trying to keep this in a thread somehow -
okay -
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 N
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 04:26, Michael Prokop wrote:
>
> Just because of personal interest: doesn't the bcm43xx driver work
> for you?
Not yet - I am not sure why, but I never give up.
> Or do you really need the ndiswrapper-way-of-life?
It is one thorn in my side I shan't miss...;)
best,
Dear friends,
The ndiswrapper is a broadcom chip issue, combined with the kernel 2.6.17
enabled the bcm43xx module by default.
My experimentation was trying to load the wrapper, then when it did not work,
rm the other interfering modules. This did not work.
Solution for those who use broadcom
Dear friends,
8 is great, but, without ndiswrapper, useless to me.
modprobe ndiswrapper apparently loads the module, as the relevant section of
lsmod
"usbcore967768
ndiswrapper,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd"
shows it to be present, but iwconfig wlan0 tells me there i
Dear M and friends,
Just a note from the noob lurkers - way OT -
this sutff, which we do not even know how to ask helps us all a lot, and one
of the best reasons for using grml is the fact that the mailing list is so
informative and courteous.
I, too, after blacklisting the ipv6 module get the
On Thursday 03 August 2006 15:14, Wernfried Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:33:01PM -0400, Martin Yazdzik wrote:
> > # ModelName"Old Monitor (no DDC)"
>
> As far i understand the issue, your hardware doesn't support DDC,
> which is used to find
dear m and friends,
just for fun, i tried the rc on an older pc without the need for wireless
card.
grml-x issue - no screen found
now, if I copy the xorg.conf that I always use for that machine, then issue
grml-x fluxbox, it is gorgeous, screen, colous, resolution.
I am attaching the corr
>
> I updated the package to the new upstream version 1.21 (old one was
> 1.18), as usual it's available in the grml-repos. Can you please try
> that?
>
> wget
> http://grml.org/repos/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.17-grml_1.21-1+grml.06_i386.d
>eb dpkg -i ndiswrapper-modules*.deb
>
> regards,
> -mika
Dear T and friends,
I am not sure what you really trying to do, but if you are trying to forward
mail in such a manner, you might try using ucspi-ssl.
--
"...children and young people feel instinctively the difference between those
who genuinely wish them well and those who regard them
mere
> Unstable does
> not mean that the software has to be unstable but that the package
> pool is the unstable part of it. So the uncomfortable stuff is the
> package upgrades, not the software itself.
Dear Friends,
I am repeating, re-iterating and re-quoting this because, for those who are
new t
work others can
do that I cannot.
Best,
M
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:03, T wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:18:59 +0200, martin yazdzik wrote:
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > I admit that you probably do not consider grml the perfect noobie distro,
> > but, since everyth
Dear Friends,
Is there some reason other than my own stupidity that this charset is not
available to me?
I am now using grml on my mission critical machines daily, and the only real
drawbacks are:
1. not all auto-installers, such as hsfmodem drivers or ati installer work
with grml, although t
Grub oder lilo?
gruesse,
martin
On Saturday 17 June 2006 05:18, johannes swoboda wrote:
> hallo liste!
> ich habe eine hd-grml-installation mit debian testing und den boot
> loader in den mbr installiert. ich habe auch ein windows-xp
> installiert, aber der boot loader zeigt windows in der liste,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % mozilla
grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
cut: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
sed: error while loading shared libraries:
Tony Wolf went through this with me about a week ago.
There is some problem, to wit, after apt-get install grub the necessary files
to install grub to mbr are not present in /boot.
I used a simple cheat, which was to use a live cd and run grub install from
there, using my grml partition as root
> Thanks for you patience...
>
>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 21403112615657 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda214041534 1052257+ 82 Linux swap /
> Solaris /dev/sda3 *1535599535832982+ 8
rub already work on your system? os is that the first install on
> your system, sorry this part I haven't understand.
>
> 2006/5/4, Martin Yazdzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > grub> root (hd0,3)
> > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >
> > gru
6 14:08, you wrote:
> oh I forgot something :)
>
> >root (hd0,0)
> >setup (hd0)
>
> on root you have to insert the position of the /boot partition.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tony
>
> 2006/5/4, Martin Yazdzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Dear Friends,
> &
Dear Friends,
I have decided, probably against sane better judgement to go to grml as my
main mission critical OS.
Now, since I have been booting from grub on my other linux partition, I wish,
obbviously, to boot from the grub files in /boot, as I am going to delete the
other partition entirel
On Saturday 22 April 2006 04:21, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * my <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060422 07:15]:
> > I have a near perfect grml setup - all hardware actually works, without
> > exception on my dell laptop.
> >
> > However, and this is a problem deep enough to render the system useless
> > in the
Dear Friends,
I admit that you probably do not consider grml the perfect noobie distro, but,
since everything works perfectly with no hassles whatsoever, you are going to
find yourselves contending with more and more of us.
The only thing I wish to change at all, but cannot quite figure out how
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