On 29/01/13 12:04, Robert McWilliam wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013, at 09:43 AM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I assume that when
you are told to insert or change things in multiple files in the
operating system, it's no good just opening them with gedit and changing
them on the spot; you have to navigate to them and open them via the
terminal and change them with sudo. Is that right?
To change the system level files (most things that aren't in your home
directory) you usually need more permissions than your user will have.
sudo gets you those permissions.
If you're comfortable in a terminal then you can navigate around in
there and open up an editor with sudo when needed.
If you'd prefer to use gedit to locate and edit the files you can start
an instance of gedit with the necessary permissions by opening the run
dialogue with alt+F2 and then entering "gksudo gedit". You'll then
(probably) be asked for your password and then you get gedit.
Robert
Indeed, well, looking at the instructions on the Ubuntu Forums, there
are simple examples of doing it from the terminal, which just go "sudo
gedit..." and then the location. I understand the principle. But if you
have the time, may I direct your attention to the first post on this
thread, which is what I followed with the appropriate changes of driver
name (and the omission of the blacklist instruction, which would have
blacklisted my own new driver):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1850267
Now when I ran the sudo make and sudo make install instructions, the
terminal churned out a hundred lines or so of responses, many of which
were warnings of one sort or another, but eventually returned to its
normal status, ready for further instructions. So something must have
happened, approximately corresponding to an installation. But if I can't
even find the driver with modinfo, under the name it is clearly given as
having, I have a problem. Is there a master change log I can look at
which will tell me what I actually achieved or failed to achieve yesterday?
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