On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:21 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Would that have been enough to include and fire up some kind of firewall or > do I need to install that separately? > > If so what firewall would you recommend and what aptitude command will fetch > me it? > > How do I know that the firewall is on and working? Other have already recommended shorewall, but there are other tools you can try. For example firestarter is a complete package for managing a firewall, and GUI based. > Also if I want to probe the horizontal and vertical refresh rate of the > monitor I am using more precisely using Linux (e.g. superprobe?), how do I > do it? > > Also I assume that if I go into the config box in Gnome then I should be > able to run the Xwindows config again somehow and then put in the precise > monitor refresh information into Xwindows and then have the monitor work as > effectively as possible. > > Suggestions on the best strategy here are appreciated. The video card is an > SiS 630/730 according to Fedora. Putting in SiS as the card manufacturer > type seemed to work well. > > So far I chose the "simple" option and put a generic 15 inch CRT display in > form my monitor. This has actually worked OK but I want to refine it and > give Debian the fair deal when it comes to running my hardware. You can re-run the configuration for X and manually input the correct refresh rate. The configuration can be run inside X from a terminal, but you need to restart X for the changes to take effect. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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