I am trying to switch from Windows to Linux and I need a few answers. Please help.

ayush.27 · 08-19-2010, 04:25 AM

^^

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ayush@hp-laptop:/sbin$ ./lspci
bash: ./lspci: No such file or directory

Please help.

i92guboj · 08-19-2010, 04:29 AM

Maybe it lives in /usr/sbin/lspci, maybe you haven't that tool installed for some reason. The package is usually called something like pciutils, but that -of course- depends on your distro packagers. Simple as that.

Erik_FL · 08-19-2010, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by i92guboj

Mmm, this has nothing to do with the current problem. The search $PATH is irrelevant when you provide the full path to the binary file, as in

Even a relative path would do, and the binary needn't be on a dir listed by $PATH in that case either.

Good point. You do need to have permission to access the "sbin" directory and read the file. I don't know enough about Linux to be sure what the usual permissions are for "sbin".

MrCode · 08-20-2010, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by catkin

Xfce is simple and fast; for many people it is at least adequate; some do not like its lack of eye-candy;

With any of the desktops, you can add eye candy if you have working 3D acceleration. One word: Compiz.

I'm using Arch with Xfce+Compiz, and I think it looks beautiful!

MTK358 · 08-20-2010, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Brains

Well....I'm really pissed now.
The best of the best went from "guru" to "moderator". As far as I'm concerned, that's a total disgrace, this "moderator" title impairs reality.

Your comment doesn't make any sense to me, and this seems totally off-topic.

Aquarius_Girl · 08-20-2010, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by ayush.27

^^

Code:

ayush@hp-laptop:/sbin$ ./lspci
bash: ./lspci: No such file or directory

Please help.

Paste the output of the following command here:

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cat /etc/issue

ayush.27 · 08-20-2010, 08:21 AM

^^

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Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l

catkin · 08-20-2010, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by anishakaul

Paste the output of the following command here:

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cat /etc/issue

Various versions of Linux keep their distro/version information in differently named files; /etc/issue is used by several but not all.

@ayush.27 Which Linux distro are you using?

EDIT: ignore that question; ayush.27 was posting the answer as it was being written (and anishakaul was confident it was an ubuntu so /etc/issue was good anyway)

ayush.27 · 08-20-2010, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by catkin

Various versions of Linux keep their distro/version information in differently named files; /etc/issue is used by several but not all.

@ayush.27 Which Linux distro are you using?

I was using kubuntu when I started this thread. But I switched to ubuntu earlier today.

ayush.27 · 08-20-2010, 08:30 AM

Just to let people know, I'm going to post my original problem again :

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I have a HP Pavillian Laptop. Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2 GHz. 4 GB RAM.

I've installed Kubuntu on my laptop. The biggest problem is that my laptop doesn't go into sleep mode. The screen goes off, but the system is still running. I mean you can hear the fan and everything. The sleep in Windows Vista is quite convenient. I just press a button, close the lid and I can later resume from where I left it. While in the sleep mode, the laptop appears to be "off". There's just one small light that keeps blinking.

I've tried the hibernate in Kubuntu. But that isn't satisfactory either. First of all, it takes forever to come out of the hibernate state. Secondly, it doesn't preserve the application state. For example, if I'm watching 45 minute flash video on google video. I have the entire video buffered. After watching half the video, I need to step out for a little while. I do the hibernate. After coming back, I can't resume watching from where I left it. I have to reload the video. This doesn't happen in the Vista sleep mode.

Any help would be appreciated.

Aquarius_Girl · 08-20-2010, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by catkin

Various versions of Linux keep their distro/version information in differently named files; /etc/issue is used by several but not all.
....
(and anishakaul was confident it was an ubuntu so /etc/issue was good anyway)

"anishakaul" was not confident about Ubuntu but in fact she was thinking that the OP must be using some weird distros like
andLinux
and
IPCop

cat /etc/issue has been tested on both the above mentioned distros as well as on Suse, Ubuntu, Redhat !

catkin · 08-21-2010, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by anishakaul

cat /etc/issue has been tested on both the above mentioned distros as well as on Suse, Ubuntu, Redhat !

Hi Anisha

A good illustration of which files contain distro+version id text on various distros is rkhunter's rkh_dat_get_os_info() function.

Aquarius_Girl · 08-21-2010, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by catkin

A good illustration of which files contain distro+version id text on various distros is rkhunter's rkh_dat_get_os_info() function.

Mr. Catkin,

Thanks for the enlightenment !

But I couldn't find it in the "Yast" nor through "cnf" nor through "man". It needs to be installed separately (at least in OpenSuse). May be there is something wrong with my current installation.

Actually I couldn't find even "Kdevelop" there

Aquarius_Girl · 08-21-2010, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by ayush.27

I've tried the hibernate in Kubuntu. But that isn't satisfactory either. First of all, it takes forever to come out of the hibernate state. Secondly, it doesn't preserve the application state. For example, if I'm watching 45 minute flash video on google video. I have the entire video buffered. After watching half the video, I need to step out for a little while. I do the hibernate. After coming back, I can't resume watching from where I left it. I have to reload the video. This doesn't happen in the Vista sleep mode.

Read the following man page till end ! See if it helps you somehow:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...-action.8.html