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 >> diagnose. > > Isn't much to say, really.. > * ATI Radeon PCI > * Intel 975 Chipset > > The motherboard is an Asus "Wallstreet Quartet".. > >>> - 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. > > Yes, I know.. I didn't ask how to remove anything, just why it got > installed to begin with.. The gnome stuff is long gone on this box. > Some stuff needs some of the Gnome libraries to function properly. I know Xen also installs 1 or 2 Gnome libs along the way. It might be worthwhile to check with rpm which Gnome stuff got installed, and which packages requires them :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg