Linux

Fedora 7

• su - change to super user
• init [number] set runmode number (5=graphical, 3=text, 1=single user)

KDE

• startkde start KDE (from ssh)
• Added xset r off to .bashrc hopefully fixing annoying problem with unwanted repeating characters when using VNC based on this conversation.
• Attempted to set up remote desktop sharing through ssh, so far not really working:

% krfb

% vncviewer localhost:5900

-Added XTEST(X11R6) to Exceed Xconfig under X Server Protocol, Extensions Tab

CygWin

• Installing minicom on cygwin:

1. Add folder: /var/lock
2. Move file minirc.dfl to /usr/local/etc
3. Fix serial port /dev/ttyS1 -> /dev/com1 ???

Unix/Linux

• Basic unix commands
• Basic unix commands
• IO-Redirection shell commands
• Linux command reference
• Emacs manual
• Vi manual
• Gawk manual
• GNU awk manual
• GNU manuals from University of Utah

Scripting

• > Advanced Bash scripting guide
• > Handling strings

Commands

• Common Linux commands
• Common Linux commands

• To get information on the server/computer:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

cat /proc/meminfo

dmesg

lspci

• find . -name "rc.conf" -print
• xhost +[server name, i.e. vlsi] (give permission to remote server to use local display)
• setenv DISPLAY=###.###.###.###:0.0 (set DISPLAY variable to local ip address)
• cat /var/log/messages |grep *** (Search system messages for specific word)
• service xinetd restart (Restart xinetd server)
• rpm -ivh foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm (Add a package with rpm)
• rpm -e foo (Remove a package with rpm)
• ps (processes)
• top (processes dynamic list)
• strace ./ldecod.exe -e trace=gmon.out Debugging: print system calls made by ldecod.exe during execution
• bzip2 -cd files.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - Bzip
• tar -cf ouput.tar folder Tar a folder
• tar -czvf output.tar.gz folder Tar and gzip a folder
• tar -xzvf input.tar.gz Untar and unzip a tar-ball
• md5sum [filename] Generate md5 hash of [filename]

Software

• yay: yet another YUV viewer

%yay [-s <with>x<height>] <filename>.yuv

• mpeg4ip tools: toolbox for mp4, avi, mov, etc.

%mp4creator -extract=1 file.avi file.264

Drivers

• Short tutorial on writing drivers in linux

Utilities

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) Server

• VNC on Wikipedia
• TightVNC information
• vncserver :1 -geometry 1880x1160
• vncviewer localhost:# over ssh
• /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
• /sbin/service vncserver restart
• vncserver -kill :1

Bootloader

• Grub tips and tricks (USB installation)

USBNET (USBDNET)

• usbnet driver information (linux-usb.org)

-BLOB requires cdc_subset module (# modprobe cdc_subset)

• gadget driver information (linux-usb.org)
• remove linux 2.6 usb 2.0 driver? modprobe -r ehci-hcd

-apparently uhci-hcd is the usb 1.0 driver from linux 2.4

• Setting up usbnet (Fedora Core 4)
• usbnet for Windows

TFTP

• Installing tftp on Fedora 6
• tftp instructions

Compilers

• Cross compiler for Arm information
• How to build arm-linux toolchain for ARM/XSCALE

Make

• Make manual

Fedora Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• Create bootable USB drive using Fedora script
• Installing tftp on Fedora
• Fedora Core 1 Repository
• Using rpm