Hi. I have just installed Red Hat 7.3 on my laptop. It basically seems to work. But I'm not sure the graphics card is working right because the graphic-intensive games don't work right i.e. tux racer, etc. How can I set up my graphics card? Or better yet, is there a newer version of Red Hat that might detect my graphics card and work automatically?
Thanks, josh -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: newbies Digest, Vol 3, Issue 19 Send newbies mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of newbies digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Installing Eclipse on Linux (Tony Vance) 2. Re: Installing Eclipse on Linux (Byron Clark) 3. Re: Various questions (Michael Halcrow) 4. Re: Various questions (Soren Harward) 5. Re: Various questions (Stuart Jansen) 6. RE: /etc/hosts (Dave Christensen) 7. Re: /etc/hosts (Wade Preston Shearer) 8. Re: /etc/hosts (Byron Clark) 9. RE: /etc/hosts (Stuart Jansen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:58:30 -0600 From: "Tony Vance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [newbies] Installing Eclipse on Linux To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi all, I'm trying to setup up Eclipse (Java IDE) on my linux computer. I'm unziped/untared the .tar.gz file from www.eclipse.org to my hard drive. I'm not sure what to do next. I have the Jave run-time environment installed. What else do I have to do to get Eclipse to run? Thanks. Best, Tony ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:08:17 -0600 From: Byron Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbies] Installing Eclipse on Linux To: Newbie Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:58:30AM -0600, Tony Vance wrote: > Hi all, > > > I'm trying to setup up Eclipse (Java IDE) on my linux computer. I'm unziped/untared the .tar.gz file from www.eclipse.org to my hard drive. I'm not sure what to do next. I have the Jave run-time environment installed. What else do I have to do to get Eclipse to run? Thanks. > > Best, > > Tony > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies You shouldn't need to do anything special to get it to run, just go into the eclipse directory it created and run eclipse (./eclipse). -- --------------------------------+----------------------------------- Byron Clark | http://www.byronandannie.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --------------------------------+----------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 0365 6979 6C3E BC0C 56C0 FB7F 12B3 75DD 042B EA68 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Hours of fun for the whole family! > I've read that locate isn't for all situations. I've read that locate > doesn't search the hard drive, but rather a database that represents the > hard drive. Therefore, locate is only as accurate as the locate > database is current. Is this right? Yeah. > When should I use the find > command? When your index isn't current. > Are there other search commands? If so what are their merits? locate and find should take care of all your needs. > How do I kill frozen applications? How do I use the kill command? I've > read the man page, but I'm not sure how to tell what process is frozen > and how to kill it. It's ``frozen'' when it doesn't respond or do what you think it should be doing. Use kill [pid]. If the SIGTERM handler for the process isn't playing nice, then kill -9 [pid]. Mike -- ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer, IBM Linux Technology Center | | The only dumb question is one you haven't | asked yet. | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://yiwaz.raw.no/pipermail/newbies/attachments/20030630/d8073b0a/attachme nt-0001.bin ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:38:53 -0600 From: "Soren Harward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbies] Various questions To: Newbie Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon 30 Jun 2003 at 09:15:11, Tony Vance said: > > I've read that locate isn't for all situations. I've read that locate > doesn't search the hard drive, but rather a database that represents the > hard drive. Therefore, locate is only as accurate as the locate > database is current. Is this right? That is correct. Your system runs a command every night called "updatedb" that searches through the hard drive and updates locate's databse. > When should I use the find command? - When you are looking for a file that may not have existed last time updatedb ran - When you are looking for a file within one subdirectory - When you are looking from a file searching by something other than filename (like permissions or modification time). > Are there other search commands? If so what are their merits? which is a wonderful command. It searches the directories in your PATH environment for an executable. The PATH variable is what tells your system where to find programs so that you don't have to type the full directory name. For instance, I type "mutt" and my system sees that "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" are in my PATH. It searches each of those, and finds mutt in /usr/local/bin, so it runs it. If I wondered where mutt was actually installed, I could type "which mutt" and it would return "/usr/local/bin/mutt". Another good search command is "apropos". It searches through all the manpages for pages about a certain command. For instance, "apropos bash" on my system returns: bash (1) - GNU Bourne-Again SHell bashbug (1) - report a bug in bash builtins (1) - bash built-in commands, see bash(1) ispellconfig (8) - Bash script to select a new ispell default dictionary. rbash (1) - restricted bash, see bash(1) update-ispell-dictionary (8) - Bash script to select a new ispell default dictionary. Which tells me all of the manpages that have information about bash. I can then do "man 1 builtins" if I want info about bash's builtins. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________ Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:49:09 -0600 From: Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbies] Various questions To: Newbie Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:27, Michael Halcrow wrote: > locate and find should take care of all your needs. Don't forget grep. -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> "What hole did you dig that up from?" -- my roommate commenting on my taste in music -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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My /etc/hosts > file looks like this right now: > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > What should my /etc/hosts file look like if I want my computer to be > named john.example.net? Do I need to specify an ip address? What would > the command be or am I just as well to do the changes in the redhat gui > for network configuration? You have to understand that the name "john.example.net" is only the name of your computer to others when you have it in a DNS server somewhere. For example, my machine at work is called isengard, and it's fully-qualified name is isengard.chem.byu.edu. But that really only means anything to other computers because our DNS points isengard to my ip address. All hosts does is give your local machine a quick way to resolve simple names that aren't in anyone's DNS. For example, my home machine's host file looks like: 127.0.0.1 enterprise.local.lan enterprise localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 reliant.local.lan reliant 192.168.0.2 enterprise 192.168.0.3 saratoga 192.168.0.4 stargazer.local.lan stargazer 192.168.0.5 intrepid 192.168.0.6 hood 192.168.0.7 voyager 192.168.0.8 defiant 192.168.0.11 vpn-tgt 192.168.0.10 vpn-src 192.168.0.12 sparc1 192.168.0.14 pegasus 192.168.0.30 marcus 192.168.0.32 marcuslaptop None of my machines are on a DNS, (I could set on up if I wanted to, I guess), so I put these in /etc/hosts so that *my* machine can reference the others by name. If the other machines want to reference my machine, they would need similar /etc/hosts entries. Note that your computer can have a real ip address and no hostname (other than localhost). However it could still have a name in a DNS somewhere. Basically, whatever I set the hostname (during setup or in /etc/sysconfig/network) to I add to the 127.0.0.1 line for convenience. This probably is way confusing, but I'm not sure how to explain it simpler. :) Yes I really do have that many machines. Sort of. Reliant is my firewall (on at&T cable), enterprise is my workstation, saratoga is my i-opener (remember those?), stargazer is my brother's workstation, and intrepid, hood, voyager and defiant are all virtual machines (VMWare and User-mode-linux). Pegasus is my attempt at building a PVR (see www.mythtv.org). Oh and the sparc1 entry is for my 25 Mhz black and white Sparcstation ELC (runs diskless with an nfs-root and 1-bpp X display!!). Gotta show off my toys. Michael > > Let's say I have two computers that will be talking to each other at > times. I want one to be called 'john.example.net' and the other > 'tim.example.net'. Is that the right idea or should they be totally > different like 'john.example.net' and tim.home.net'? > > Thank you, > > john > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:55:39 -0600 From: Wade Preston Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbies] /etc/hosts To: Newbie Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed in Microsoft WindowsXP... C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 12:48 PM, Dave Christensen wrote: > Is there an equivalent to /etc/hosts for Windows? I want to be able > access my local RH9 box from my Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE machines > without typing 192.168.*.* > > Thanks, > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Michael Torrie > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 1:22 AM > To: Newbie Help > Subject: Re: [newbies] /etc/hosts > > On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 01:07, John Noll wrote: >> I really appreciate all the help. >> >> I'm just not understaniding the naming schemes for linux. My > /etc/hosts >> file looks like this right now: >> >> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs >> # that require network functionality will fail. >> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost >> >> What should my /etc/hosts file look like if I want my computer to be >> named john.example.net? Do I need to specify an ip address? What > would >> the command be or am I just as well to do the changes in the redhat > gui >> for network configuration? > > You have to understand that the name "john.example.net" is only the > name > of your computer to others when you have it in a DNS server somewhere. > For example, my machine at work is called isengard, and it's > fully-qualified name is isengard.chem.byu.edu. But that really only > means anything to other computers because our DNS points isengard to my > ip address. All hosts does is give your local machine a quick way to > resolve simple names that aren't in anyone's DNS. For example, my home > machine's host file looks like: > > 127.0.0.1 enterprise.local.lan enterprise > localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.0.1 reliant.local.lan reliant > 192.168.0.2 enterprise > 192.168.0.3 saratoga > 192.168.0.4 stargazer.local.lan stargazer > 192.168.0.5 intrepid > 192.168.0.6 hood > 192.168.0.7 voyager > 192.168.0.8 defiant > 192.168.0.11 vpn-tgt > 192.168.0.10 vpn-src > 192.168.0.12 sparc1 > 192.168.0.14 pegasus > 192.168.0.30 marcus > 192.168.0.32 marcuslaptop > > None of my machines are on a DNS, (I could set on up if I wanted to, I > guess), so I put these in /etc/hosts so that *my* machine can reference > the others by name. If the other machines want to reference my > machine, > they would need similar /etc/hosts entries. > > Note that your computer can have a real ip address and no hostname > (other than localhost). However it could still have a name in a DNS > somewhere. Basically, whatever I set the hostname (during setup or in > /etc/sysconfig/network) to I add to the 127.0.0.1 line for convenience. > > This probably is way confusing, but I'm not sure how to explain it > simpler. :) > > Yes I really do have that many machines. Sort of. Reliant is my > firewall (on at&T cable), enterprise is my workstation, saratoga is my > i-opener (remember those?), stargazer is my brother's workstation, and > intrepid, hood, voyager and defiant are all virtual machines (VMWare > and > User-mode-linux). Pegasus is my attempt at building a PVR (see > www.mythtv.org). Oh and the sparc1 entry is for my 25 Mhz black and > white Sparcstation ELC (runs diskless with an nfs-root and 1-bpp X > display!!). Gotta show off my toys. > > Michael > > >> >> Let's say I have two computers that will be talking to each other at >> times. I want one to be called 'john.example.net' and the other >> 'tim.example.net'. Is that the right idea or should they be totally >> different like 'john.example.net' and tim.home.net'? >> >> Thank you, >> >> john >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> newbies mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:56:24 -0600 From: Byron Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbies] /etc/hosts To: Newbie Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:48:56PM -0600, Dave Christensen wrote: > Is there an equivalent to /etc/hosts for Windows? I want to be able > access my local RH9 box from my Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE machines > without typing 192.168.*.* > > Thanks, > > Dave > Yes there is, but you'll have to dig for it. You should be able to find it at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts or at c:\winnt\system32\drivers\drivers\etc\hosts. Those may only be there for 2000/XP. -- --------------------------------+----------------------------------- Byron Clark | http://www.byronandannie.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --------------------------------+----------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 0365 6979 6C3E BC0C 56C0 FB7F 12B3 75DD 042B EA68 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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