[daip] help with TV display in new aips installation

[Eric Greisen]

Try

/sbin/ifconfig -a

it should show something like

primate<245>$ /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:47:9B:66:69  
          inet addr:146.88.3.236  Bcast:146.88.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:128153179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:132827579 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:4205668553 (4010.8 Mb)  TX bytes:2193618884 (2091.9 Mb)
          Interrupt:11 Memory:ff1c0000-ff1e0000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:18279881 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18279881 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1598819254 (1524.7 Mb)  TX bytes:1598819254 (1524.7 Mb)


where the lo is all about loopback.  If that does not show then the
loopback is not running.  The failure of $DISPLAY = localhost:0
suggests that it is not running.

ERic Greisen