@TRUEST: I suppose there is an old version of X installed, because you are using redhat 8 and it's a fresh install, so execute "xf86config" as superuser and answer all the questions. After that the "program" writes a "XF86Config" file in "/etc/X11".
Close all opened applications and press Control+Alt+Backspace to quit X. Then type "startx" and you might see a good result. If the xf86config has no effect, it's possible that the "XF86Config" file is not considered, so try to rename it to "XF86Config-4".
Code:
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
It's possible that you need to save it to a different place but I think redhat is not as different Ubuntu Linux is ...(never try Ubuntu ).
Make backups of old config-files, otherwise you are not able to restore the old configs .
Hello people !
Does anyone knows how can I get the CPU configuration in the RedHat Box ???
I need know the frequence of cpu and how much cpu(s) in my box ...
Thank you,
Witt (2 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a laptop with redhat7.2 installed with Gforce4 video card and using Xfree86 version 4. I wanted to know if any one has been able to have the displayto output to a projector. If so can you pass on your wisdom? THANKS (1 Reply)
can someone tell me what commands in Linux RedHat 8.0 will give me a graph of whats going on on my system. When Is ay graphs I mean graphs like does produced by perfview of solaris and glance of HP-UX. (3 Replies)
We have a redhat linux el4 and used as a mail server.We configured postfix.all r working fine.we got a problem for a particular user when he tries to open his mailbox and the error is mentioned below:
ERROR: Could not complete request.
Query: SELECT "INBOX"
Reason Given: Internal error... (3 Replies)
we are using redhat linux,configured the postfix as mail server and outlook is used as mail client.whenever the user opens outlook it is start downloading all the mails from the server.
Example : If a user has 50 mails in the server,whenever he opens the outlook the outlook will start... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to do rsh on to a redhat EL 5 machine. It repeatedly asks me for the password and die after sometime. One might think that I am giving the wrong password. But I can do 'ssh' on to that machine with the same password.
Can someone tell me what I have been doing wrong?
... (2 Replies)
Hi All
when I give the command,
$ ping <hostname>
I get the following error
ping: unknown host <hostname>
I have checked in the following files,
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf
Every where in these files host name and IP address are given... (2 Replies)
Guys,
I would like to discuss the problem I am seeing with echo “\n” statement in Redhat Linux Enterprise 5.3 version. I have a shell script that was written couple of years back for generic UNIX platforms based on ksh and was tested on Solaris 8,9,10 ; AIX 5.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux... (5 Replies)
hello all,
If i send mails using postfix,the mails stored in queue,not delivered to required recipient...can anyone please tell me the solution for this problem... (4 Replies)
what is the difference between Redhat Linux and Redhat Enterprise Linux. whereas Redhat linux have Server installation options too. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hananabbas
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
linux::distribution
Linux::Distribution(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Linux::Distribution(3pm)NAME
Linux::Distribution - Perl extension to detect on which Linux distribution we are running.
SYNOPSIS
use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);
if(my $distro = distribution_name) {
my $version = distribution_version();
print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
} else {
print "distribution unknown
";
}
Or else do it OO:
use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);
my $linux = Linux::Distribution->new;
if(my $distro = $linux->distribution_name()) {
my $version = $linux->distribution_version();
print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
} else {
print "distribution unknown
";
}
DESCRIPTION
This is a simple module that tries to guess on what linux distribution we are running by looking for release's files in /etc. It now looks
for 'lsb-release' first as that should be the most correct and adds ubuntu support. Secondly, it will look for the distro specific files.
It currently recognizes slackware, debian, suse, fedora, redhat, turbolinux, yellowdog, knoppix, mandrake, conectiva, immunix, tinysofa,
va-linux, trustix, adamantix, yoper, arch-linux, libranet, gentoo, ubuntu, scientific, oracle enterprise linux and redflag.
It has function to get the version for debian, suse, fedora, redhat, gentoo, slackware, scientific, oracle enterprise linux, redflag and
ubuntu(lsb). People running unsupported distro's are greatly encouraged to submit patches :-)
EXPORT
None by default.
TODO
Add the capability of recognize the version of the distribution for all recognized distributions.
AUTHORS
Alexandr Ciornii <alexchorny@gmail.com>, <http://chorny.net> Alberto Re, <alberto@accidia.net> Judith Lebzelter, <judith@osdl.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.14.2 2012-03-18 Linux::Distribution(3pm)
10-30-2004
...(never try Ubuntu 
).