Hello list, I'm a former Trustix User (were active in that community since the very first betas), and now that my dear distro is dead, I'm looking to make a switch.. Several people recommended CentOS, so I decided to give it a spin.. I installed one new server with 5.0 a few months back, and I do have a couple of questions.. - Why does the screen flicker on and off several times during boot and when logging in? - Why does floppy.so get loaded? I have no floppy, and having floppy.so loaded while installing certain packages is dreadfully slow. - When I chose a pure console environment, without any X11 stuff, why did a bunch of gnome packages get installed? - Is it possible to get a php-mssql package? -I need this if I'm going to use CentOS at work.. I think that's it for now.. -- Cheers, Morten
Morten Nilsen wrote:> - Why does the screen flicker on and off several times during boot and > when logging in?mine does not, so cant say what is going on with your setup, perhaps posting some more info about your setup might help make it easier to diagnose.> - Why does floppy.so get loaded? I have no floppy, and having floppy.so > loaded while installing certain packages is dreadfully slow.nothing like that is loaded on my machine. I dont have a fdd either.> - When I chose a pure console environment, without any X11 stuff, why > did a bunch of gnome packages get installed?CentOS comes with a package manager, yum. There is a man page for that, and lots of docs online. You can use that to remove anything you dont need. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
> - Why does the screen flicker on and off several times during boot and > when logging in?I presume you mean when logging in at the console, the fonts look a bit glitchy and flickery at times. I can't recall the exact details, but this is a known RHEL5 bug, caused by the system reloading the fonts every time a character or line of characters is displayed. There was one complicated workaround posted, but for now, this cannot be resolved. I don't see it now, in any case, since I login via ssh and dont need to be at the console.> - When I chose a pure console environment, without any X11 stuff, why > did a bunch of gnome packages get installed?As strange as it may seem, some apps which are supposedly text-only, have dependencies based on the gnome libs. I can't remember the offending packages offhand, but I don't really care much since disk-space is so cheap.> - Is it possible to get a php-mssql package? -I need this if I'm going > to use CentOS at work.. >There is no default rpm for centos5, but one exists for Fedora.
Morten Nilsen wrote:> > - Why does the screen flicker on and off several times during boot and > when logging in?In the kernel distributed with RHEL5 / CentOS 5.0, a driver was accidentally omitted (CONFIG_FB_VESA). This makes the text mode display wonky on some common hardware. IIRC, this was not corrected until the 5.1 release. Once you upgrade to the current kernel, that problem should go away. If you installed 5.0, you're missing a LOT of updates. The normal update mechanism should bring your machine up to 5.1 unless you've taken action to lock it to the 5.0 release. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.