Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Morten Nilsen
Niki Kovacs wrote: The question may sound silly, but are you up-to-date? As far as "yum update/upgrade" tells me, yes.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote: We do not seem to have php-mssql for CentOS extras as it requires freetds and we were concerned about potential patent issues with freetds. However, it seems Fedora is including freetds now in version 8 and version 9, so I will research this freetds issue again and if w

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Morten Nilsen wrote: Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: 'yum remove libgnomesomething' will do the depsolving for you (just like 'yum install'). I don't really mind doing it manually, it yields greater control.. You are still in control - yum will figure out the right thing to do but will wait for

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Morten Nilsen a écrit : Johnny Hughes wrote: Do these options exist in /boot/grub/grub.conf on the "Kernel" line: quiet rhgb Just got home - and no, they do not.. I remember having had a problem with the CentOS 5.0 kernel when adding 'vga=788' (or 'vga=791') to GRUB's kernel line. Seems l

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Morten Nilsen a écrit : I don't really mind doing it manually, it yields greater control.. Sorry, but this is an urban myth. Yum and RPM let you control things *equally*. I know, I use them both regularly, everyday, at home and at work. Refusing to use Yum in a situation like the one you des

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Morten Nilsen
Johnny Hughes wrote: Do these options exist in /boot/grub/grub.conf on the "Kernel" line: quiet rhgb Just got home - and no, they do not.. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Morten Nilsen
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: 'yum remove libgnomesomething' will do the depsolving for you (just like 'yum install'). I don't really mind doing it manually, it yields greater control.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 at 3:24pm, Morten Nilsen wrote Yes, I am well aware of the dependency thing.. I used to maintain a large selection of packages in TSL contrib.. I did rpm -e libgnomesomething and added on packages until it stopped complaining about deps.. 'yum remove libgnomesomething' will

RE: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Dennis McLeod
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Morten Nilsen Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:28 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0) D Steward wrote: >> - Why does the screen flicker on a

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Morten Nilsen
On 3/27/2008, "Johnny Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> that time the monitor stayed off.. had to ssh in to resolve it..That may >> indicate that someting in the sysinit shuts off the monitor at the start >> of a script, then turns it back on at the end.. > >Do these options exist in /boot/gru

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
Morten Nilsen wrote: On 3/27/2008, "Karanbir Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: no, that's not it.. the monitor goes into power off mode - the LED turns orange. Sounds like your monitor does not like switching modes between text / gui perhaps ? Which GUI are you referring to? I removed all the

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Morten Nilsen
On 3/27/2008, "Karanbir Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> no, that's not it.. the monitor goes into power off mode - the LED turns >> orange. > >Sounds like your monitor does not like switching modes between text / >gui perhaps ? Which GUI are you referring to? I removed all the X11 stuff.. A

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
Morten Nilsen wrote: > D Steward wrote: >>> - 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. > > no, that's not it.. the monitor goes into power o

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Morten Nilsen wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: 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 d

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-26 Thread Morten Nilsen
Karanbir Singh wrote: 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. Isn't much

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-26 Thread Morten Nilsen
D Steward wrote: - 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. no, that's not it.. the monitor goes into power off mode - the LED turns orange. I

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-26 Thread D Steward
> - 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 fo

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
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