On Friday 11 June 2004 08:34 pm, John Fleming wrote: > > On Friday 11 June 2004 07:30 pm, John Fleming wrote: > > > Is there anything analagous to pmfirewall in Sarge (2.6 kernel)? I > > > downloaded pmfirewall because I was familiar with it, but it's not > > > compatible with the 2.6 kernel. I need something newbie-easy that I > > > can configure remotely. Thanks - John > > > > Hi, > > I was pointed to 'firestarter' and it does seem to work well, using sarge > > with > > > 2.6.6 kernel. > > Duh - I almost forgot about Firestarter, and that's what I actually started > with today! I'm familiar with it from using it with Fedora. I just > installed Sarge, and I'm new to Debian and pretty new to Linux. I have > some issues with X and my display, and I don't have Gnome working yet. I > do have KDE working (at some stupidly low resolution), but I couldn't find > an entry for Firestarter anywhere in the KDE menus (after appropriately > installing Firestarter). When I did the same things in Knoppix/Sid, I did > find the Firestarter entry in the KDE menus. > > Anyway, I think I will keep working on getting Firestarter going. What if > I'm using KDE and open a terminal -window- and then start firestarter - > Will that make the GUI appear?? I know it doesn't work from the console - > just says it can't find any screens. > > I don't read anything about it having a text mode. Thanks! - John
Hi John, first- please don't cc me, I get the list, thanks. I don't know if the gui for firestarter would work in text mode. If you have kde running, then the firestarter gui will work, I guess. Have you tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to sort out your display? (You'll need to know ahead of time some information about your hardware.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
