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**closetgeek** · 10-02-2008

Hi, everyone I'm am fairly new to Linux but I have aspiration of becoming a administrator of a Linux based server. I'm currently attending Devry University with a major in Network system administration. I'm currently taking a Unix/Linux OS class that is required for my degree. I have recently have installed the Fedora 8 Distribution and would take any input on learning a how to create scripts in the vi.

**cayalee** · 10-02-2008

hi, welcome to the world of linux and welcome to the forums!

***Roxoff*** · 10-02-2008

Welcome, I hope you enjoy your time here.

Bash scripting is very well documented on the internet. I could post up a few links, but you'd be much better served by googling it yourself, you can search for examples of the types of script you need.

**closetgeek** · 10-02-2008

Thanks for your response Caylee I will google some examples for sum scripts. Can you help me with something I was surfing youtube and I saw someone using Linux in a way that I was not use to seeing . On their desktop the some application opened and they were moving the desktop around it looked like a cube type of movement. Can you tell me how I can get this cube affect on my desktop. I think I'm using GNOME environment I'm not sure. Thanks for your help...

**smolloy** · 10-02-2008

Originally Posted by closetgeek

Thanks for your response Caylee I will google some examples for sum scripts. Can you help me with something I was surfing youtube and I saw someone using Linux in a way that I was not use to seeing . On their desktop the some application opened and they were moving the desktop around it looked like a cube type of movement. Can you tell me how I can get this cube affect on my desktop. I think I'm using GNOME environment I'm not sure. Thanks for your help...

The cube effect uses a package called Compiz. There are loads of tutorials out there (search google!) for how to enable it, but here's one I found for you.

Link

**closetgeek** · 10-03-2008

Thanks, I went to the link that you gave me and it said that for this to work I need to have a 3D capable graphics card. Being that I'm a novice at this, can you tell me how I can inspect my system to find out what kind of graphics card I currently have.

**smolloy** · 10-03-2008

If you run the following as root you will see a list of PCI devices,

Code:

lspci

Here's an extract from mine where you can see that I have an Nvidia card

Code:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev a1)

**closetgeek** · 10-03-2008

Originally Posted by smolloy

If you run the following as root you will see a list of PCI devices,

Code:

lspci

Here's an extract from mine where you can see that I have an Nvidia card

Code:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev a1)

Hi,Smolloy
I typed in the code that you sent me lspci, but it isn't working. It is giving me a response like this:

ls: cannot access pci: No such file or directory

Can you help with this...

**smolloy** · 10-03-2008

It's all one word

Code:

lspci

Not

Code:

ls pci

**closetgeek** · 10-04-2008

Originally Posted by smolloy

It's all one word

Code:

lspci

Not

Code:

ls pci

Yes, sir I did that lspci and it still gave a error.

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