[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat9 - hostid doesn't work

[MadHat]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 10:45, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:01:16 -0600, Kyle Davenport wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is it time to dis' RH9?
> > 
> > 
> > The biggest problem I have with RH9 is the NPTL change.  Perhaps for some
> > server app's there will be a performance improvement, but I always roll my
> > own kernels, starting with Linus', and the whole system suffers expecting
> > NPTL in the kernel.  Getting Nvidia's drivers to work was painful.  My
> > measure of a good distribution is how easily it can be modified - and
> > RedHat's getting harder and harder.  At work, where I don't have a lot of
> > time to mess with my machine:
> 
> 
> just my $0.02.... I got a new nVidia card over the weekend. I installed 
> the card in my RH9 box and ran the install of the nVidia binary drivers
> ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run ) and was up and running in a flash. 
> I don't really like running binary drivers... or their splash scree, but
> the drivers loaded fine. 

You can disable the splash screen.  Check the conf info in the readme or
on the site.

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