Canada is a nuclear free country ONLY by virtue of the fact that the United States would, bound by treaty and common sense, respond in kind with it's own vast nuclear arsenal were Canada ever attacked by weapons of mass destruction by another nation. I wouldn't get too morally superior if I were you. Remember kids, NORAD is a JOINT command, the vice-commander has always been a CANADIAN general since inception, and there's talk that the next commander will be Canadian. Check out http://www.peterson.af.mil/norad/
Now also remember that there's a difference between NORAD and STRATCOM. Unlike what you saw in Wargames, NORAD doesn't push the button. They just warn that the sky is falling and vector CF-18s and F-15s onto bomber targets. And now they vector the Coast Guard onto drug flights from Central and South America. Hey, you might as well use those expensive radar chains and C3I facilities for SOMETHING, lest Congress cut your budget now that Russia's bomber force consists of aging Bears that would be on one-way suicide missions and a handful of Blackjacks. And since Congress just loves to throw military money at the drug problem, you just bought yourself a new mission and a new lease on life.
Listen to the kernel advice above, and when you have that accomplished, forget about the RPMS that install GLX and the NVIDIA kernel module. Grab the tarballs off the same NVIDIA page you found the RPMS at (they're the last links on the page) and follow the make directions in NVIDIA's FAQ - it's not hard at all. Make very sure you clean out the MESA files they tell you to - they're not kidding. Now that you have the kernel module and GLX stuff, fire up X. This is where I have MY problems. If I run a default monitor (specify NO HFreq or VFreq info in XF86Config) it runs like a champ. If I put the same monitor info that worked in the old version of XFree86 (the correct capabilities of my monitor), the NVIDIA driver tries to set my resolution at something insane like 1836x1543 90hz and bails out. The bizarre thing is that the logs tell me that the NVIDIA driver sees the correct monitor info, says it's using it, but seems to ignore it anyway. There's a strange space in the log where it says "Using 35.00 -86.00hz" where the other line says "Using 50.00-130.00". No space before the hyphen in the second one. Don't know if that's related, but it can't hurt. Good luck!!!
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Canada is a nuclear free country ONLY by virtue of the fact that the United States would, bound by treaty and common sense, respond in kind with it's own vast nuclear arsenal were Canada ever attacked by weapons of mass destruction by another nation. I wouldn't get too morally superior if I were you. Remember kids, NORAD is a JOINT command, the vice-commander has always been a CANADIAN general since inception, and there's talk that the next commander will be Canadian. Check out http://www.peterson.af.mil/norad/ Now also remember that there's a difference between NORAD and STRATCOM. Unlike what you saw in Wargames, NORAD doesn't push the button. They just warn that the sky is falling and vector CF-18s and F-15s onto bomber targets. And now they vector the Coast Guard onto drug flights from Central and South America. Hey, you might as well use those expensive radar chains and C3I facilities for SOMETHING, lest Congress cut your budget now that Russia's bomber force consists of aging Bears that would be on one-way suicide missions and a handful of Blackjacks. And since Congress just loves to throw military money at the drug problem, you just bought yourself a new mission and a new lease on life.
Listen to the kernel advice above, and when you have that accomplished, forget about the RPMS that install GLX and the NVIDIA kernel module. Grab the tarballs off the same NVIDIA page you found the RPMS at (they're the last links on the page) and follow the make directions in NVIDIA's FAQ - it's not hard at all. Make very sure you clean out the MESA files they tell you to - they're not kidding. Now that you have the kernel module and GLX stuff, fire up X. This is where I have MY problems. If I run a default monitor (specify NO HFreq or VFreq info in XF86Config) it runs like a champ. If I put the same monitor info that worked in the old version of XFree86 (the correct capabilities of my monitor), the NVIDIA driver tries to set my resolution at something insane like 1836x1543 90hz and bails out. The bizarre thing is that the logs tell me that the NVIDIA driver sees the correct monitor info, says it's using it, but seems to ignore it anyway. There's a strange space in the log where it says "Using 35.00 -86.00hz" where the other line says "Using 50.00-130.00". No space before the hyphen in the second one. Don't know if that's related, but it can't hurt. Good luck!!!