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32 <p>Up2date: 20051024 - applies to version grml 0.5/grml-small 0.1</p>
34 <p><a name="toc"></a><strong>Index:</strong></p>
36 <p class="toc"><a href="#general">General:</a></p>
38 <li><a href="#whatis">What is grml?</a></li>
39 <li><a href="#get">Where do I get grml?</a></li>
40 <li><a href="#whatmeans">What does grml mean?</a></li>
41 <li><a href="#pronounce">How to pronounce grml?</a></li>
42 <li><a href="#releasename">What about the release name?</a></li>
43 <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements for running grml</a></li>
44 <li><a href="#why">Why another Linux distribution?</a></li>
45 <li><a href="#license">What's the license of grml?</a></li>
46 <li><a href="#difference">What's the difference between grml and $OTHER-DISTRIBUTION? What are your main goals?</a></li>
47 <li><a href="#knoppix">What's the difference between grml and Knoppix?</a></li>
48 <li><a href="#accessibility">What does accessibility at grml mean?</a></li>
49 <li><a href="#emulation">Is it possible to run grml with $EMULATOR?</a></li>
52 <p class="toc"><a href="#grmlsmall">grml-small:</a></p>
54 <li><a href="#whatissmall">What is grml-small?</a></li>
55 <li><a href="#smallvsnormal">What is the difference between 'normal' grml and grml-small?</a></li>
58 <p class="toc"><a href="#system">System</a>:</p>
60 <li><a href="#password">What are the passwords of users on grml?</a></li>
61 <li><a href="#version">How to find out the version of grml</a></li>
62 <li><a href="#remove_cd">Is it possible to run LiveCD and eject CD-ROM?</a></li>
63 <li><a href="#language">How do I change the language/keyboard settings?</a></li>
64 <li><a href="#kde_and_foo">KDE, Gnome, $FOO and $BAR</a></li>
65 <li><a href="#wms">Which window managers can I use?</a></li>
66 <li><a href="#terminalserver">Can I boot grml without CD-ROM? What's the grml-terminalserver?</a></li>
67 <li><a href="#bugreport">Bugreport</a></li>
68 <li><a href="#hdinstall">Is it possible to install grml to harddisk?</a></li>
69 <li><a href="#hardware">I have problems with my hardware!</a></li>
70 <li><a href="#boot">grml does not boot on my computer!</a></li>
73 <p class="toc"><a href="#kernel">Kernel</a>:</p>
75 <li><a href="#kernelconfig">Where can I find the configuration for the kernel used on grml?</a></li>
76 <li><a href="#kernelpatches">Are there any special components/patches in the kernel used on grml?</a></li>
77 <li><a href="#platform">Which platforms is the grml kernel optimized for?</a></li>
80 <p class="toc"><a href="#software">Software:</a></p>
82 <li><a href="#sw_general">General</a></li>
83 <li><a href="#sw_version">What version of $PACKAGE is available?</a></li>
84 <li><a href="#init">Init-System</a></li>
85 <li><a href="#zsh">Why is zsh the default shell (/bin/sh)?</a></li>
86 <li><a href="#bash">Is a bash available?</a></li>
87 <li><a href="#setuid">setuid/SUID</a></li>
88 <li><a href="#aide">aide</a></li>
89 <li><a href="#bitchx">bitchx</a></li>
90 <li><a href="#ispell">ispell</a></li>
91 <li><a href="#latex">LaTeX</a></li>
92 <li><a href="#slapd">slapd</a></li>
93 <li><a href="#tripwire">tripwire</a></li>
96 <p class="toc"><a href="#release">Release related issues</a>:</p>
98 <li><a href="#ipw">Using IPW driver with DHCP</a></li>
99 <li><a href="#wpa">Using WPA with 2.6.13-grml</a></li>
102 <p class="toc"><a href="#xserver">X-Server</a></p>
104 <li><a href="#xstart">How do I start the X server?</a></li>
105 <li><a href="#xproblem">X does not start on my box?!</a></li>
106 <li><a href="#xresolution">I don't like the resolution of X!</a></li>
109 <p class="toc"><a href="#framebuffer">Framebuffer</a></p>
111 <li><a href="#video">The boot option vga does not work as expected?</a></li>
112 <li><a href="#fbprobs">I don't see anything when booting grml?!</a></li>
115 <p class="toc"><a href="#question">Further questions</a></p>
117 <h2><a name="general"></a><a href="#toc">General</a></h2>
119 <h3><a name="whatis"></a><a href="#toc">What is grml?</a></h3>
121 <p>grml is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on <a
122 href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/">Knoppix</a> and <a
123 href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>. grml includes a collection of
124 GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system
125 administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml
126 as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working
127 environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk. Due to
128 on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1 GiB of software and
129 documentation on the CD.</p>
131 <h3><a name="get"></a><a href="#toc">Where do I get grml?</a></h3>
133 <p>You can download grml of course: take a look at <a
134 href="http://grml.org/download">grml.org/download/</a>. If you want
135 to get an original grml-CD including <a
136 href="http://grml.org/files/#covers">the grml-cover</a>, need a
137 special amount of CDs or want your own special grml-CD (including
138 your logo, your software and/or special settings) <a
139 href="http://grml.org/contact/">please don't hesitate to contact
140 us</a>! Take a look at <a
141 href="http://solutions.grml.org/">grml-solutions</a> for more
142 information regarding our offers.</p>
144 <h3><a name="whatmeans"></a><a href="#toc">What does grml mean?</a></h3>
146 <p>grml is short for 'grummel' and comes close to 'argl' or 'grrr' in english. People
147 use this when they want to express their dissatisfaction/discontentedness with software
148 (amongst other things):</p>
151 $ grep -ch grml .centericq/**/history | xargs echo | \
152 sed 's/[0-9]*/& + /g' | sed 's/+ $//g' | bc -l
155 <h3><a name="pronounce"></a><a href="#toc">How to pronounce grml?</a></h3>
158 $ echo 'ghroummel' | festival --tts
159 $ flite -o play -t gremel</pre>
161 <h3><a name="releasename"></a><a href="#toc">What about the release name?</a></h3>
163 <p>Codename of grml 0.5 is <a
164 href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Tokolytika">Tokolytika</a>.
165 This is the german word for <a
166 href="http://www.google.com/search?q=tocolytics">tocolytics</a>.</p>
168 <p>Codename of grml-small 0.1 is Zugschlus. <a
169 href="http://blog.zugschlus.de/">Zugschlus</a> is the nickname of Marc Haber
170 who brought the initial idea for grml-small.</p>
172 <h3><a name="requirements"></a><a href="#toc">Requirements for running grml</a></h3>
175 <li>Intel-compatible CPU (i586 or later, preferably Pentium class or higher)</li>
176 <li>at least 56MB of RAM (for stable use with ramdisks for unionfs and udev and running X window system
177 we recommend at least 128MB)</li>
178 <li>grml-small: at least 32MB RAM should be available</li>
179 <li>bootable CD-ROM drive (or a boot floppy and standard CD-ROM [IDE/ATAPI
180 or SCSI]) [or network - see <a href="#terminalserver">grml-terminalserver</a>]</li>
183 <h3><a name="why"></a><a href="#toc">Why another Linux distribution?</a></h3>
185 <p>There already exist "<a
186 href="http://www.distrowatch.com/">some</a>" distributions. We decided
187 to base our work on the existing infrastructure of <a
188 href="http://debian.org/">Debian</a> and <a
189 href="http://www.knoppix.net/">Knoppix</a> because we don't want to reinvent
190 the wheel. Some admins already use their own rescue-CD and Knoppix works but
191 does not bring that many important tools for admins out of the box so we
192 decided to share our work with others.</p>
194 <h3><a name="license"></a><a href="#toc">What's the license of grml?</a></h3>
196 <p>Anything written by the grml team is published under the GPL (<a
197 href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>).
198 You don't have to pay anything for running grml. <a
199 href="http://grml.org/contact/">Donations and feedback</a> are welcome of
200 course. If you want to get a special grml version or need support take a
201 lookt at the <a href="http://solutions.grml.org/">grml-solutions</a>.</p>
203 <h3><a name="difference"></a><a href="#toc">What's the difference between grml and
204 $OTHER-DISTRIBUTION? What are your main goals?</a></h3>
206 <p>The main goal of grml is to be a distribution well suited for users of
207 texttools and sysadmins. grml includes many important texttools (of course
208 awk, sed, grep,... but also zsh, mutt[ng], slrn, vim and many other stuff we
209 like) and useful programs for admin's daily work too. grml uses the existing
210 infrastructure of <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> and <a
211 href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/">Knoppix</a> and merges useful things
212 also from other distributions/live-cds.</p>
214 <h3><a name="knoppix"></a><a href="#toc">What's the difference between grml and Knoppix?</a></h3>
216 <p>grml comes with a vastly different set of software. Missing KDE
217 and OpenOffice provides the opportunity of shipping more than 800
218 packages which Knoppix does not provide on it's CD version. grml
219 boots a 2.6.x kernel but no X for faster startup. Knoppix is based
220 on Debian/testing-experimental (using apt-pinning), but grml is
221 basically based on plain Debian/unstable providing more current
222 versions of software and less painfull upgrades. grml was once
223 based on Knoppix but has nowadays (except of a similar initial
224 ramdisk) nothing in common with Knoppix anymore:</p>
228 # find / -iname \*knoppix\*
231 <p>We consider Knoppix as a brand name for live-cds nowadays and
232 provide most of Knoppix features as well. grml uses (mostly) the
233 same cheatcodes for booting as Knoppix and provides even some extra
234 ones. So if you are used to the basic Knoppix features you might
235 find them on the grml-system as well. Ripping out the Knoppix
236 stuff provides the possibility to create a grml system out of a
237 Debian system and vice versa. Running 'apt-get install grml' on a
238 Debian box will be officially supported in an upcoming version of
241 <h3><a name="accessibility"></a><a href="#toc">What does accessibility at grml mean?</a></h3>
243 <p>The grml kernel includes <a href="/kernel/#speakup">support for
244 speakup</a> and provides software like brltty (using bootoption 'grml blind
245 brltty=type,port,tbl'), emacspeak and flite. Please don't hesitate to <a
246 href="/contact/">contact us</a> if you have any further questions,
247 suggestions or feedback regarding accessibility!</p>
249 <h3><a name="emulation"></a><a href="#toc">Is it possible to run grml with $EMULATOR?</a></h3>
251 <p><a href="http://www.vmware.com/">VMWare</a> should work without any
252 problems. It's also possible to run grml with <a
253 href="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/">QEMU</a>, an emulator for various
254 CPUs which works on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Running grml with
255 QEMU has been tested successful on Windows and Linux, take a look at <a
256 href="/qemu/">the QEMU-grml-webpage</a>.</p>
258 <h2><a name="grmlsmall"></a><a href="#toc">grml-small?</a></h2>
260 <h3><a name="whatissmall"></a><a href="#toc">What is grml-small?</a></h3>
262 <p>Whereas grml provides about 2.1GiB of software on a 700MB-ISO, grml-small
263 is a flavor with online 50MB ISO-size (~150MB uncompressed). It does not
264 provide a lot of software but the essential stuff for being a rescue system
265 on a business card CD-ROM or a small usb device. Take a look at the <a
266 href="/files/">'Debian-Information'-section</a> if you are searching for the
269 <h3><a name="smallvsnormal"></a><a href="#toc">What is the difference between 'normal' grml and grml-small?</a></h3>
271 <p>The 700MB-grml brings more than 2350 packages of software and a <a
272 href="/kernel/">full-featured kernel</a>. grml-small includes about 200
273 software-packages, lacks documentation and manpages on the ISO and has a
274 stripped-down kernel (but still provides hardware recognition of course).
275 <a href="#terminalserver">grml-terminalserver</a> is <strong>not</strong>
276 available/supported on grml-small.</p>
278 <h2><a name="system"></a><a href="#toc">System</a></h2>
280 <h3><a name="password"></a><a href="#toc">What are the passwords of users on grml?</a></h3>
282 <p>There are no default passwords. All accounts are locked by default. Even local
283 logins are not possible (unless you set a password or create new user accounts as
284 root). You can create valid passwords using "sudo passwd [username]" from the shell,
287 <h3><a name="version"></a><a href="#toc">How to find out the version of grml</a></h3>
289 <p>Run 'grml-version' or use the following command:</p>
292 $ cat /etc/grml_version</pre>
294 <h3><a name="remove_cd"></a><a href="#toc">Is it possible to run LiveCD and eject CD-ROM?</a></h3>
297 $ sudo umount -l /cdrom
298 $ sudo eject /dev/cdrom # now don't run any new programs ;)
299 $ mount /dev/cdrom # mount it again if needed ;)
302 <h3><a name="language"></a><a href="#toc">How do I change the language/keyboard settings?</a></h3>
304 <p>By default grml uses english settings. But it is possible to change the
305 settings via using either the lang-bootparam or via running grml-lang when
306 grml is running already. Usage examples:</p>
309 grml lang=de # enter this at the bootprompt and you will get
310 # german keyboard layout and german $LANG, $LC_ALL,...
311 $ grml-lang de # enter this in the shell to switch keyboard layout
312 # and $LANG settings in a running grml-system
315 <h3><a name="kde_and_foo"></a><a href="#toc">KDE, Gnome, $FOO and $BAR</a></h3>
317 <p>Why isn't KDE, Gnome, $FOO or $BAR part of grml? grml is a distribution
318 for users of texttools and sysadmins. If you would like to run KDE with
319 Debian use e.g. <a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/">Knoppix</a>, <a
320 href="http://www.munjoylinux.org/">Munjoy-Linux</a>, <a
321 href="http://kanotix.com/">Kanotix</a>, <a
322 href="http://www.kalyxo.org/">Kalyxo</a> or <a
323 href="http://www.kubuntu.org/">Kubuntu</a>. Gnome users might find <a
324 href="http://www.gnoppix.org/">Gnoppix</a> useful. If you would like to see
325 a special (software) package inside grml please <a
326 href="http://grml.org/report/">report it to us</a>!</p>
328 <h3><a name="wms"></a><a href="#toc">Which window managers can I use?</a></h3>
330 <p>grml is shipped only with window managers which are lightweight and
331 fast - so well suited for a live-cd. At the moment grml provides the window managers:
332 <a href="http://www.fluxbox.org/">fluxbox</a>,
333 <a href="http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/">ion2 and ion3</a>,
334 <a href="http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/index.shtml">jwm</a>,
335 <a href="http://pekwm.org/">pekwm</a>,
336 <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/">ratpoison</a>,
337 <a href="http://www.plig.org/xwinman/vtwm.html">twm</a>,
338 <a href="http://www.grassouille.org/code/w9wm/README">w9wm</a>,
339 <a href="http://www.nickgravgaard.com/windowlab/">windowlab</a>,
340 <a href="http://wmi.berlios.de/">wmi and wmii</a>.</p>
342 <h3><a name="terminalserver"></a><a href="#toc">Can I boot grml without
343 CD-ROM? What's the grml-terminalserver?</a></h3>
345 <p>grml-terminalserver let you boot from network. For more information refer
347 href="http://grml.org/terminalserver/">grml-terminalserver-webpage</a>.</p>
349 <h3><a name="bugreport"></a><a href="#toc">Bugreport</a></h3>
351 <p>Report bugs via the tool reportbug which is part of the package
352 grml-reportbug and provided with the grml system. If you don't know
353 how to handle reportbug either take a look at <a
354 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=bugs">the bugs-webpage in
355 the grml-wiki</a> or you can send us your bug report via the <a
356 href="http://grml.org/bugs/">bugs-webpage</a>.</p>
358 <h3><a name="hdinstall"></a><a href="#toc">Is it possible to install grml to harddisk?</a></h3>
360 <p>Yes. grml provides a tool called grml2hd (see 'man grml2hd').
362 <!-- <p>In general we recommend using a non-live-CD distribution for installing on
363 harddisk because it might fit better. Especially if you would like to build a
364 server system you don't want to use a live-cd system. Use <a
365 href="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/">d-i of Sarge</a> (Debian
366 Installer), <a href="http://www.ubuntulinux.org/">Ubuntu Linux</a> or if you
367 have a lot of computers you might consider <a
368 href="http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/">FAI (Fully Automatic
369 Installation) for Debian GNU/Linux</a> by Thomas Lange useful. But if you
372 If you want to get a working Linux to your workstation consider
373 using grml2hd. grml is developed on a box running the grml-system
374 itself and we - the grml-developers - especially like grml2hd
375 because it gives us a working Linux box within 10 to 30 minutes!
376 You can use grml2hd even in a full automatic mode without any
377 further interaction. More information is available on <a
378 href="http://grml.org/grml2hd/">grml.org/grml2hd/</a>.</p>
380 <h3><a name="hardware"></a><a href="#toc">I have problems with my hardware!</a></h3>
382 <p>Take a look at the script grml-hwinfo. This scripts generates a
383 file namend info.tar.bz2 which contains important information of
384 your hardware. If you think we might help you please run
385 grml-hwinfo and send us the file with additional, relevant
386 information regarding your problem.</p>
388 <h3><a name="boot"></a><a href="#toc">grml does not boot on my computer!</a></h3>
390 <p>Please take a look at <a
391 href="http://grml.org/files/grml-cheatcodes.txt">the available bootparamters
392 and cheatcodes</a>. Especially booting with 'acpi=off noapm noapic'
393 might help. Bootparameter 'failsafe' provides a minimal hardware recognition.
394 You still have problems? Please <a href="/contact/">contact us</a>!</p>
396 <h2><a name="kernel"></a><a href="#toc">Kernel</a></h2>
398 <h3><a name="kernelconfig"></a><a href="#toc">Where can I find the configuration for the kernel used on
401 <p>See /boot/config-`uname -r` and on <a href="/kernel/">the kernel-webpage</a>.</p>
403 <h3><a name="kernelpatches"></a><a href="#toc">Are there any special components/patches in the kernel
404 used on grml?</a></h3>
406 <p>grml uses the currentmost stable vanilla Linux kernel from <a
407 href="http://www.kernel.org/">www.kernel.org</a> with some
408 additional patches. More information and an all-in-one patch is
410 href="http://grml.org/kernel/">kernel-page</a>.</p>
412 <h3><a name="platform"></a><a href="#toc">Which platforms is the grml kernel optimized
415 <p>Plain i586 compatibility-mode with SMP deactivated to avoid
416 problems with specific systems and drivers.</p>
418 <h2><a name="software"></a><a href="#toc">Software</a></h2>
420 <h3><a name="sw_general"></a><a href="#toc">General</a></h3>
422 <p>Want to run a program as root? Just use 'sudo $PROGRAM'. To get a
423 root-shell run 'sudo su'.</p>
425 <p>Problems with a specific package? Please try 'dpkg-reconfigure $package'.
426 Still encountering difficulties? Please send us a <a
427 href="http://grml.org/bugs/">bugreport</a>!</p>
429 <h3><a name="sw_version"></a><a href="#toc">What version of $PACKAGE is
432 <p>Take a look at the dpkg_...-files in the <a
433 href="http://grml.org/files/#debian">Debian-Information section on
434 grml.org/files/</a>. </p>
436 <h3><a name="init"></a><a href="#toc">Init-System</a></h3>
438 <p>Why is grml using runlevel 2 as default? Because runlevel 2 is 'the
439 textonly one' and it's debian's default.</p>
441 <p>Where are all the /etc/rc#.d-directories? grml doesn't use
442 sysv-rc but file-rc. This means you can configure the init system
443 in one single file namend /etc/runlevel.conf with your favourite
444 editor. No symlink-hell anymore.</p>
446 <h3><a name="zsh"></a><a href="#toc">Why is zsh the default shell (/bin/sh)?</a></h3>
448 <p>Short answer: because zsh rocks.</p>
450 <p>Longer answer taken from <a href="http://zsh.sunsite.dk/FAQ/zshfaq01.html#l3">ZSH
451 FAQ: 1.2: What is it?</a>:</p>
453 <cite> Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard shells most
454 resembles the Korn shell (ksh); its compatibility with the 1988 Korn shell has been
455 gradually increasing. It includes enhancements of many types, notably in the
456 command-line editor, options for customising its behaviour, filename globbing, features
457 to make C-shell (csh) users feel more at home and extra features drawn from tcsh
458 (another `custom' shell).</cite>
460 <p>If you don't know zsh take a look at <a
461 href="http://zsh.sunsite.dk/FAQ/zshfaq02.html#l9">ZSH FAQ: How does zsh
462 differ from...?</a>, 'man zsh | less -p COMPATIBILITY' and '<a
463 href="/zsh/">man zsh-lovers</a>'.</p>
465 <p>If you are a bash-user and don't know the zsh yet don't be afraid. bash is largely a
466 subset of zsh and you don't have to throw away your knowledge about shell-stuff.</p>
468 <h3><a name="bash"></a><a href="#toc">Is a bash available?</a></h3>
470 <p>grml uses the <a href="#zsh">zsh</a> as the default shell but of
471 course a current version of the bash (as many other shells as well)
472 is provided by grml anyway.</p>
474 <h3><a name="setuid"></a><a href="#toc">setuid/SUID</a></h3>
476 <p>If you set a programm SUID (setuid/mode 4755) unprivileged users on your system will
477 be able to run it. This <em>could</em> be a potentially security hole so by default the
478 packages are configured not to install binaries with setuid. If you want to use the
479 binaries with setuid please run 'dpkg-reconfigure $packagename' or 'chmod 4755
480 =programm'. The following packages are well known to have a programm with not-set
493 <h3><a name="aide"></a><a href="#toc">aide</a></h3>
495 <p>Before AIDE can be used, you will have to initialize a database. In order to do
496 this, simply run the following command:</p>
499 /usr/sbin/aideinit</pre>
501 <h3><a name="bitchx"></a><a href="#toc">bitchx</a></h3>
503 <p>Why isn't bitchx part of grml? <a
504 href="http://www.google.com/search?q=bitchx+sucks">bitchx
505 sucks</a>. Please use a better alternative like <a
506 href="http://irssi.org/">irssi</a> or <a
507 href="http://weechat.flashtux.org/index.php?lang=en">weechat</a>
508 which are part of grml.</p>
510 <h3><a name="ispell"></a><a href="#toc">ispell</a></h3>
512 <p>You don't want to use the preselected default for ispell? Run
513 'select-default-ispell' for changing it.</p>
515 <h3><a name="latex"></a><a href="#toc">LaTeX</a></h3>
517 <p>auctex and preview-latex are loaded by default in emacs. If you want to load
518 auctex based on your personal settings put the string "(require 'tex-site)" in your
519 ~/.emacs, for preview-latex use the string '(load "preview-latex")'.<br />
520 To change this run 'dpkg-reconfigure auctex' and/or 'dpkg-reconfigure
523 <h3><a name="slapd"></a><a href="#toc">slapd</a></h3>
524 <p>The password for the admin entry in the LDAP directory is 'grml'.</p>
526 <h3><a name="tripwire"></a><a href="#toc">tripwire</a></h3>
528 <p>The site-key pass-phrase and the local key pass-phrase for tripwire are 'grml'.</p>
530 <h2><a name="release"></a><a href="#toc">Release related issues</a></h2>
532 <h3><a name="ipw"></a><a href="#toc">Using IPW driver with DHCP</a></h3>
534 <p>The ipw-drivers in grml already contain special fixes for fixing
535 problems with ipw and kernel 2.6.13. But you might have to run
536 'iwlist $DEVICE scanning' (adjust $DEVICE with the corresponding
537 network device) anyway to get an associated connection to the access
540 <h3><a name="wpa"></a><a href="#toc">Using WPA with 2.6.13-grml</a></h3>
542 <p>Kernel 2.6.13 includes wireless extensions version 18 (12.3.05).
543 The ipw2200 module uses the wireless extensions instead of custom ioctl()s
544 now. As a result you have to use '-Dwext' for wpa_supplicant to use
545 the wireless extensions when wpa_supplicant is running. Adjust
546 $OPTIONS in /etc/default/wpasupplicant, for example using:</p>
549 OPTIONS="-Dwext -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"</pre>
551 <h2><a name="xserver"></a><a href="#toc">X-Server</a></h2>
553 <h3><a name="xstart"></a><a href="#toc">How do I start the X server?</a></h3>
555 <p>Please use 'grml-x' as user grml for starting X. It generates
556 the config file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and lets you start commands on
557 startup (see ~/.xinitrc). Use it for example via switching to TTY4
558 (press Alt+F4) and run the following command to start window
564 <h3><a name="xproblem"></a><a href="#toc">X does not start on my box?!</a></h3>
566 <p>grml-x supports several options. If you want to set some special options
567 please take a look at the grml-x manpage (man grml-x)! Some usage examples:</p>
570 grml-x -display 8 fluxbox # start fluxbox on display 8
571 grml-x -force -nostart # force creation of xconfig file and don't start X server
572 grml-x -hsync 60 fluxbox # set horizontal frequency and start fluxbox
573 grml-x -hsync 60 -vsync 40 fluxbox # set horizontal and vertical sync frequencies and start fluxbox
574 grml-x -mode '800x600' fluxbox # set resolution to 800x600 and start ion3
575 grml-x -module vesa fluxbox # start fluxbox and use vesa module
578 <h3><a name="xresolution"></a><a href="#toc">I don't like the resolution of X!</a></h3>
580 <p>Just run xrandr to switch the resolution. For example: 'xrandr -s
583 <h2><a name="framebuffer"></a><a href="#toc">Framebuffer</a></h2>
585 <h3><a name="video"></a><a href="#toc">The boot option vga does not work as
588 <p>grml (starting with version 0.4) uses <a
589 href="/kernel/#vesafbtng">vesafb-tng</a> instead of vesafb. This
590 means you have to set the bootopion via video= instead of vga=.
591 See <a href="http://grml.org/bootsplash/f6">bootsplash F6</a> for
594 <h3><a name="fbprobs"></a><a href="#toc">I don't see anything when booting grml?!</a></h3>
596 <p>Probably this is a problem with vesafb-tng. Try to boot via
597 bootoption 'nofb' or 'grml video=ofonly'. Some laptops need a
598 special keysequence to switch between monitor and beamer settings
599 (e.g. Samsung X20: press Fn+F4) when booting. Often it's possible
600 to switch resolution also after booting grml:</p>
603 modprobe -l | grep fb.ko # try to find out which module fits for your system
604 modprobe atyfb # load the appropriate module
605 fbset 1024x768-60 # now try to switch the resolution on current console
608 <h2><a name="question"></a><a href="#toc">Further questions</a></h2>
610 <p>Do you have a question which is not answered in the FAQ or in
611 the provided <a href="http://grml.org/docs/">documentation</a>
612 (also run 'grml-info' on your grml-system)? Take a look at <a
613 href="http://grml.org/">the grml-website</a> and <a
614 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">the grml-wiki</a>. Please don't
615 hesitate to <a href="http://grml.org/contact/">contact us</a>, a
616 good place to start is the <a
617 href="http://grml.org/mailinglist/">grml mailinglist</a>.</p>
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