I just installed debian and I need to know where I can find information about my current installation is it x32 or x64. I an sure that my current hardware is x64 but I'd like to know the current OS type.
I am new to Debian and Linux all together. At work, we have dual even triple minitors at our stations. I have not seen this on linux until I went to a co-workers house. I wanted to do the same and I have two monitors. I asked how but he uses X on Gentoo.How can I go about learning how to do this? I can tell you now, I DO NOT know how to get the monitor information on the system. I DO NOT know where to find the configuration files for my monitor.
I know I am going to need drivers and stuff. What I asking I guess is where I should start in order to get this going. I am running Debian (lenny) 4 GIGS ram, 1.5TB HDD and a Dual core processor. I know the video card I have is a dual head video card for two monitors. I would like to thank everyone in advanced for their and hopefully I can learn something new and be able to do this on my own in the future.
When booting Debian, you'll see it printing a lot of information about the system variables and such.
I don't really need to see all that, so I'd like to modify some scripts to make sure that on boot, it just does what it has to do, without printing it on the screen. Just something I fancy.
Offcourse, still seeing errors would be nice. But that long slur of text, I could do without.
I've tried looking it up, but I can't find documentation on this specific thing anywhere.
I am trying to write a shell script which will give remote system version and list of installed applications and their versions as output. In this case remote system is windows xp and I have ip address, username and password of that machine.
I'm sure this answer is out there but I cannot find it. I thought there was a command you could put in the terminal to find out what version of Fedora you are running and also tell which architecture (either 32 bit or 64 bit) it is. Does anyone know what that command is?
openSUSE 11.2 installed on machine with 5GB memory but System Information in KDE desktop shows only 3GB total memory. Just added a further 4GB but no change shown in System Information.
Is there something I must do to have sysinfo report true value and does this mean that memory not shown is not being used?
I am trying to get the X screensaver gltext to monitor my system temp and maybe some other stats. Writing a script that puts together the stats periodically is no problem, but the main thing I'm running into is that gltext doesn't refresh - whatever text I feed it stays there.So, for example, I run this command:$ /usr/lib/xscreensaver/gltext -text "`cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature`"and get a gltext window showing:temperature:60 CI can manipulate it and format it as necessary, but as my CPU heats up and cools down, it doesn't update, even if I include time variables that do.I have a script that feeds gltext the time as the first line and the temp as the second line - and although the time updates continuously as the time changes, the temperature value remains the same as whenever the screensaver started.
I used to have a program that displayed system information (cpu/ram usage, stuff like that) but the name escapes me at the moment. The key feature of this program is that it was intergrated into the desktop.
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 rt (realtime) kernel on a Dell box and trying to hook it up to a Yamaha P-80 keyboard. I'm not sure how to figure out what kind of MIDI cable I'm using. But I haven't been able to get the keyboard to play or write music on my Ubuntu or on Windows XP.
1.) How can I give you more information about my system? 2.) How can I test if it's working properly?
Ubuntu tried to update, but some problems occurred. The triangle with an exclamation point in it showed up and I rolled my mouse over it.This is what it says:
"The update information is outdated. This may be caused by network problems or by a repository that is no longer available. Please update manually by clicking on this icon and then selection 'Check for updates' and check if some of the listed repositories fail."
I did what it says and this came up:"The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in the preferences is correct."
and in the white box below the message:"Failed to fetch url 404 Not Found Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead."
i have been using ubuntu for just over 3 months now and i completely love it. but heres where the problem starts (and please let me know if i am in the right topic) i recently installed ubuntu 10.10 on my roommates computer, the reason being is that the IT department here on college "fixed it" for him, now it wont connect to the internet. it will however connect if we use an ethernet cable from the other laptop to his. his had originally windows xp then got upgraded to vista. i was wondering if there was a way to completely reset the networking wifi card if that might be the problem.
my roommates computer is a DakTech PlaidBook, however i do not know on how to check the system information in the terminal to tell you what wifi card he has and such, all i want is to have internet back on his computer again.
I have a very basic problem. Whenever I click on About Me(System->Preferences), I cannot see any information editing window. However, the mouse pointer does show the system is budy doing something, nothing shows up and then the pointer returns to default as if the system is no longer busy. What can I do to change my personal info?
I am using virtualbox to run windows xp.is there a way to access the harddisk occupied by linux and copy the information to the virtual memory in windows xp
I have upgraded my laptop to OpenSuse 11.2 few weeks ago. It was fine until last Tuesday, when a system crash occurred during a kernel security update. I think something went wrong with my network connection. I was working on my code and suddenly I lost my base tools such as /bin/ls and /bin/cd. So I tried to restart and got a kernel panic as my kernel was partially broken.
I tried rescue the system, however it did not work. After that I thought I could fix it by reinstalling the OS with minimal server configuration over my existing root partition. (Since I didnt have any other computer or live cd at that time and I was rushing for a demo, I could not reinstall the missing components one by one. And reinstalling the minimal server made sense then )Almost everything went fine ( i needed to do little things like creating gdm user). Now I can use my system and all my applications. But as expected, the pre installed packages in my system now cannot be seen by YaST Software Manager. Is there a way to repopulate the package list?
Another question is, I cannot restart the computer from a Gnome session. Whenever I restart or shutdown, i go back to the login screen, then I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 which starts the restart progress. How can I fix this?
If I have three (3) servers that are suppoed to be configured exactly alike, is there a tool or set of scripts that I can use to capture the information and do a system level comparison?
I'm trying to write a program which would get information from a webpage and display the information on my desktop sort of like a widget. I kind of remember there being something like this already made, but for the life of me I can't remember what it's calledDoes anyone know?
I have shotucast server on my debian server it works perfect, but i can't get shoutcast information on web i'm using PHP script With script everything is OK. With shoutcast to. But i don't understand, why my php script is showing server is off
I have installed Openshot Video editor, then it did not work (due to some python bindings I guess) so I uninstalled it. After that everything seems to start failing including, running aptitude and apt-get. Here is a message when I try to run apt-get from command line (sudo apt-get install -f)
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up shared-mime-info (0.71-3) .....
Here is I am trying to run synaptic from command line: synaptic: /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2) /usr/bin/python: /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/python) /usr/bin/python: /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/python) synaptic: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64
This is from "/usr/lib$ ls libz* -al" -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90284 Dec 28 2009 libz.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 29 23:18 libzbar.so.0 -> libzbar.so.0.2.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183284 Jun 9 11:13 libzbar.so.0.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 15 21:13 libzephyr.so.4 -> libzephyr.so.4.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51396 Nov 29 2009 libzephyr.so.4.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 16 20:40 libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.3.4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 15 20:27 libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.3.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79980 Dec 28 2009 libz.so.1.2.3.4
I recently purchased a replacement CPU & motherboard and, with a grand after-market CPU heatsink and fan, was able to create a stable overclocked system of 3.8/3.9GHz (from a stock of 3.2GHz).
However, when I run, say, Code: Select alllscpu, Code: Select allcpuid (after installing said package) or Code: Select allless /proc/cpuinfo it only lists the stock speeds of 3.2GHz.
What would be the best way within my operating system to view my current clock speeds?
I wanted to change authentication options in 1) /etc/pam.d directory files common-password, common-auth, common-account 2) /etc/login.defs - PASS* fields
I know the fields that need to be changed but what I could not find was a) commands that change these options similar to useraddusermod and so on but those which can change system wide settings b) API that can change these options (C API)
I have almost accepted that there in fact aren't such things. You have to manually update the files. I would prefer not though.So I am asking here as last attempt to find such commandsAPI. Please let me know if they are available.
i followed a Tutorial about configuring apache to have HTTPS Protocole , but since i ask for a certificate , i can't input information such country code etc , i'm runing this configuration on Webmin , i'm using Debian of course so how can i input the code ?