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 don't see it now, in any case, since I login via ssh and dont need to > be at the console. Yes, I do that too.. but each time I actually need to use the console, this annoys me to no end.. >> - 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. Well, sure.. But on the other hand, it is nice to keep bloat down. >> - 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. I am aware of this fact, which is why I asked for CentOS to add a php-mssql package.. -- Cheers, Morten