Re: [Grml] Second question

2007-03-15 Thread my
typo - meant "killall gdm" (damn) -m > login as root, issue "killall grm" and you will have a console, to > regain "I can't believe impossible things." said Alice. "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Wh

Re: [Grml] Second question

2007-03-15 Thread my
a console, login as root, issue "killall grm" and you will have a console, to regain x, just issue "gdm". Best, Martin On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 22:53 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > After installed gnome-desktop-environment, my computer booted direct i

Re: [Grml] time zone configuration, minor problem.

2007-03-08 Thread my
difference. All good wishes, Martin 2007-03-09 at 08:02 +0100, Doug Smith wrote: > Ok, I am sorry I am writing about this again. However, here's whyu. > I pulled in my mail today, and I had 104 messages, most of them > absolute and total first order junk. Well, mailfilter to the

Re: [Grml] bloody raid

2007-03-06 Thread my
Dear Mika, thanks for you reply when you are so busy - as always, you are the best. I suspect you know more about everything than I know about anything, and, believe me, your savvy is deeply appreciated. Funny story, my son's friend, 13, installed ubuntu, hated it, because it was "

[Grml] bloody raid

2007-03-02 Thread my
Dear M and friends, Okay, I am trying to accomplish the following and would like a little help, although I realise I should not ask here: 1. When using debian pure on a partition I can merely chroot /thatpartition and apt-get, install, and so. I am never able to do this in a grml install, which

Re: [Grml] gnome disaster

2006-12-29 Thread my
patience is deeply appreciated. All the best, M On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 11:14 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: > * my <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061228 00:15]: > > > this is not a fglrx issue, as it occurs with any driver. > > Ok. > > > Notice the difference in the

Re: [Grml] gnome disaster

2006-12-27 Thread my
up, or some security thing. Note as well: if I edit the xorg.conf file by hand and remove the monitor that grml-x installs, it is there again on the reboot, so I would like a way to try to write my own xorg.conf and not have it touched on the reboot. Is this possible? Or a solution whereby I

[Grml] devel 0.8 ndiswrapper

2006-08-02 Thread my
Is anyone else having an issue with ndiswrapper? I have rechecked on live cd of 0.7: nano /etc/network/interfaces "iface wlan0 inet dhcp" then ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver modprobe ndiswrapper (green wireless light illuminates in 0.7, not in 0.8) iwconfig wlan0 blah blah ifup wlan0 works fi

[Grml] new kernel to get new ati driver

2006-07-28 Thread my
Dear M and Friends, One of the few weak spots in grml was the lack of ability to install the latest ati drivers as they came out. How safe is it to apt get the new grml kernel and fglrx driver, to wit, since I must have the ndiswrapper work, will module assistant be able to make sure that the ndi

Re: [Grml] ATI drivers vs. Mesa(OT)

2006-05-25 Thread my
Mika, Pardon, please the OT, but, since that method works perfectly on my mission critical machines, but I am trying to build a test bed, will the deb packages work if one has upgraded to xorg 7? If so, do the gl apps work? I e, I need xorg 7, fglrx drivers, with all 3d working. Best

[Grml] headers and modules melange

2006-05-13 Thread my
Need to recompile to test ati driver. I know this is somehow my fault, but do not know how or why:   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153, from /usr/include/limits.h:144, from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu

Re: [Grml] Wireless help

2006-05-08 Thread my
, Chris Norman wrote: Hi people, I'm stuck here doing bloody computing coursework, and I need Linux. I know GRML recognises my wireless card, but I need to connect to the wireless with it. It's an open unincripted network, is there a quick and easy to connect? Cheers, Ch

Re: [Grml] more timezone info

2006-04-23 Thread my
,  the install from zero to full flash, java, 3d accel, network, and all codecs working in browsers,  is, on my 2.16g pentium m, is only twenty-seven minutes.  (not including the dreadful kde install, which takes of course, at least half an hour. In short, a distro where everything just works out of the

[Grml] more timezone info

2006-04-22 Thread my
- 1. tzconfig to America/New_York date revealed the local time, EDT, to be five hours earlier than UTC, and showed as well UTC as being the value obtained from my hw clock, which is, of course, set to local time. 2. clean reboot, using tzselect with posix value set as "NYC-0", date reve

[Grml] timezone chaos

2006-04-21 Thread my
lDear Friends, 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 long run, there is no way to get the time to read correctly. I have tried editing the plethora

[Grml] ppp help quick

2006-04-16 Thread my
Dear grml friends, Sorry for the urgent need, but I am writing this from my libranet partition as ppp vua slmodem driver does not function for me - there is one place I travel often with only dial-up(! - really - in the USA in 2006) and the command from kppp modem query on either /dev/modem or