[Tfug] (return to) grub question

[Matthew Eskes]

that was another thought that I had, was that you may be running something 
like gpm. It has been known that gpm and X dont play nice together. Now I 
dont know what the KeyStates are for, I would have to look that up. and if 
you would like to have some complete documentation for GRUB, here it is and 
enjoy.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html

The reason that I was asking as to which kernel you were using was because I 
was wondering if you had forgotten the module or if you had a closed source 
driver installed in there.

Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Howard" <johord at gainusa.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] (return to) grub question


> Thanks Stephen, Matt, John for the continued feedback about grub.
>
> The documentation for grub is pretty short and stark -- The clarifications 
> on altoptions and kopt are greatly appreciated and will go into my master 
> Alzhiemer's notebook. Regarding XFree log file, mine looks mostly clean --  
> no EE errors or WW warnings present, though the output is extensive. 
> Something looks fishy about this big long repeated discharge at the end of 
> my XFree86.0.log (not all of it shown here). Who knew computers could be 
> so indecisive? Is GrabKeyState for mouse? in the kernel? BTW I've 
> recompiled this kernel several times if that's what you mean by a custom 
> kernel. Other than that it's just kernel 2.6.11.
>
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> (II) 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button
> SetClientVersion: 0 8
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> SetClientVersion: 0 8
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> SetClientVersion: 0 8
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> SetClientVersion: 0 8
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> SetClientVersion: 0 8
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> SetClientVersion: 0 8
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> SetClientVersion: 0 8
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> hyde:/var/log$
>
> Here's what might be working -- my syslog and messages have been free of 
> "dazed and confused" message for about 24 hours now (yippee) :
>
> #/etc/init.d/gpm stop
>
> The gpm mouse driver for my tty consoles may be interfering with psaux 
> driver used in X. Stopping it has stopped the weird message, but of course 
> now the consoles have no mouse (no biggy). I think I'm getting warmer on 
> this problem!
> Thanks again,
> JH
>
> John Gruenenfelder wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:21:55AM -0700, Joel Howard wrote:
>>
>>>After messing around a little, I discovered that boot prompts run through 
>>>grub can be made to appear in /proc/cmdline by including them in the 
>>>kernel line (not in the debian altoptions section), like so:
>>>
>>>title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.11
>>>root            (hd0,1)
>>>kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.11 root=/dev/hda9 ro mem=512M mem=nopentium 
>>>nmi_watchdog=1
>>>
>>
>>I probably should have looked at my GRUB config sooner...
>>I don't believe you were using the altoption line properly.  Altoption 
>>looks
>>like this (by default):
>>
>># altoptions=(recovery mode) single
>>
>>The part in parentheses is the label, which your example from before 
>>lacked.
>>Everything else are command line options.  Altoption is used to provide an
>>extra menu line for each kernel, but with slightly different options.  You
>>also need to have alternative=true set in order to use it.
>>
>>Given your sample above, I think you just want these options applied to 
>>all
>>kernels.  In that case you can do:
>>
>># kopt=root=/dev/hda9 ro mem=512M mem=nopentium nmi_watchdog=1
>>
>>And they'll all get it.  If you just want it on some kernels, you can do:
>>
>># kopt_2_6_10=root=/dev/hda9 ro mem=512M mem=nopentium nmi_watchdog=1
>>
>>...for example.  And then update-grub of course.
>>
>>
>>
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