On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Jeffrey Stephens wrote:

|   I am beginning the Lyx tutorial, and it says to type a few words, save
| the file, then "Run LaTeX to create a dvi file, with View -> DVI."
|
| When I do this the disk thrashed for second as if something is
| happening, but nothing does.  I think maybe I am missing something.  I
| did a "rpm -qa | grep dvi" and got the following:
|
| tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-47
| kdvi-3.0.3-0.7.2
| tetex-dvips-1.0.7-47.1

have you tried to run xdvi alone from the console? If it is OK, see in the
LaTeX log file from the menu View -> LaTeX log file (I don't know exactly,
my LyX is in german).

The last line could be:

Output written on ch7-concl.dvi (2 pages, 5368 bytes).

If it is OK, you can see in the file lyxrc.default. Check wheather xdvi is
defined or not... You should find:

\viewer dvi "xdvi"

| Is there another package(s) that I need to have for this to work
| correctly, or does something need to be configured differently?  Thanks
| for any help.

you can make a test like following...
1. export your file into dvi with command File -> Export -> DVI
2. try to run xdvi from the console and open the file.dvi.

If it is success, you can try to reconfigure or check lyxrc.default as I
sugested above...

Regards,

Wayan

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