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  • Jammrock
    The Berserker
    • Aug 1999
    • 8661
    #1

    Jammrock journey's into the world of Linux!

    I downloaded Red Hat 9 last night and just finished installing it on my laptop ... it's my first time using Linux. Pretty nice so far. The install when smoothly with no trouble. I just used all the standard install options. I'll dink with other stuff later.

    Anyone have some good resourses on how to use some of the more advanced features in Linux?

    Jammrock
    “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
    –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett
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    • mallowman
      mini MURCer
      • May 2002
      • 66
      #2
      That depends on what kind of advanced features you are talking about. Here are some general resources though.

      I've found that the documentation RedHat has written is fairly good, you can get it at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/

      A good book online is <a href="http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz">Rute - Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition</a>

      <a href="http://www.tldp.org/">The Linux Documentation Project</a> has lots of resources. Sometimes the HOWTO's assume too much and can be out of date though. Their guides seem to be pretty good though.

      Edit: Ack, forgot closing quote in an &lt;a&gt; tag, trashed a third of my post
      Last edited by mallowman; 12 August 2003, 11:13.

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        • Jammrock
          The Berserker
          • Aug 1999
          • 8661
          #3
          Now if I can only get the SB Extigy drivers to compile and install...
          “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
          –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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            • Kooldino
              Super MURCer
              • Nov 2002
              • 3026
              #4
              Try screwing w/ the makefiles...

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                • Kooldino
                  Super MURCer
                  • Nov 2002
                  • 3026
                  #5
                  Ok, if you're using a tar file, try this...(note: I'm not totally sure what this will do, or if it will work)...

                  ./configure <--i assume it runs the "configure" program in the current directory. I guess it sets variables a certain way to be compiled.


                  make <--builds the program you want to install?


                  make install <--builds the installer program???

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                    • Jammrock
                      The Berserker
                      • Aug 1999
                      • 8661
                      #6
                      dZeus and I have been dinking with the makefile and make command for a while, but the Make keeps giving errors and the compile fails. Drivers seem to be the one major tough spot in Linux... at least for me.

                      Jammrock
                      “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
                      –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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                        • mallowman
                          mini MURCer
                          • May 2002
                          • 66
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Jammrock
                          dZeus and I have been dinking with the makefile and make command for a while, but the Make keeps giving errors and the compile fails. Drivers seem to be the one major tough spot in Linux... at least for me.
                          On http://www.cs.umass.edu/~cochran/ which appears to be the main page for the linux extigy driver, there is a comment about RedHat 9 and a workaround that is documented in the makefile. Have you seen/tried that yet?

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                            • Kooldino
                              Super MURCer
                              • Nov 2002
                              • 3026
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Jammrock
                              dZeus and I have been dinking with the makefile and make command for a while, but the Make keeps giving errors and the compile fails. Drivers seem to be the one major tough spot in Linux... at least for me.

                              Jammrock
                              Yeah, ditto. I've had similar issues.

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                                • TnT
                                  Super MURCer
                                  • Sep 1999
                                  • 1644
                                  #9
                                  Although you aren't using gentoo, the gentoo forums can be extremely useful. Ever since I started using gentoo, and thus their forum, I've only had to look up 2 questions in google. Everything else I did a forum search and found someone else with my problem and solutions. Also check out the Documentation & Tips section, cause most things apply to any flavor of Linux.
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                                    • leech
                                      Super MURCer
                                      • Oct 1999
                                      • 1918
                                      #10
                                      Also I believe that Alsa supports the Extigy.

                                      AlsaProject
                                      https://www.alsa-project.org


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