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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (373)	12/31/2012 12:22:15 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

Graphics Card Drivers. The answer was guessed at. Adopt the Ubuntu version that has Long Term Support (LTS). Currently that is 12.0.4 LTS. The selection of drivers that self installed all worked in that the blessed fan on the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT stopped making that excruciating full power noise. One of the drivers downloaded even displayed both screens and all is well. Now I can play.

To: maceng2 who wrote (373)	1/12/2013 1:10:06 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

if you wish to understand the booting process a google of linux boot sequence explained will get you several good pages. The Linux Boot Process Explained is debian but all OS boot the same way. All the distributions I have used have bash as the default shell. That is the command line interpreter when you open a terminal window or xterm. their are many man pages for almost all linux/unix commands. In that changes creep into commands over the evolutions of distributions. I always create a subdirectory in my home directory /home/$user called MANPAGE for commands and even the bash shell I create text of the man pages and generally use an editor. gedit is universal. cd /home/$user/MANPAGE man bash \|col -b >bash.man the col -b strips extra printing control out of the man page. you can always dump man to the screen but in an editor you can search for terms and move back and forth. I happen to be a tcsh bigot but that is from a long ago unix background but if I were starting new I would go with bash.