Yes, got it working

It seems the key step I was missing was setting up the .sh file. So I followed the instructions posted by mstrozier and my gekko's are all overclocked now and seem to be working well.
Thanks so much for your help os2sam and 419mining.
And thanks to mstrozier for the step by step instructions for us Linux newbies.

How do you create a start file that fires everything up.
The file that has stratum, password, freq and all that stuff.
Here's the link to the instructions that helped me get going.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5053833.msg50968875#msg50968875You may need to run the different types of devices in separate sessions of CGMiner.