Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 10th Apr 2003 18:00 UTC
The up to now highly anticipated Red Hat Linux 9 is finally released. OSNews had its hands to the final version of Red Hat Linux 9 for over 3 weeks now and we were able to evaluate it in a number of ways. The final version is not too different than the Phoebe-3 beta for which we wrote a preview recently.
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Sounds like a driver problem. Try going into system settings/display and enabling hardware acceleration.
As for hard drive performance, it's one of my beefs with RedHat (and others as well). They create a file called /etc/sysconfig/harddisks but they don't even enable 32bit mode! I add this to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local..
/sbin/hdparm -c3 -d1 -u1 /dev/hda
and watch it fly.. On ATA-66 you can use -X66, and -X69 on some ATA-100 drives, but be careful with these settings do your homework first!