Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Hmmm. That IS strange! From what you're saying it sounds like you've got > the whole KDE desktop loaded, taskbar and all. Is that right?
Yes, I'm afraid I'm spoiled by having everything handy... ;-) > Maybe if you tried temporarily switching to another WM that you like working > with, maybe one that's a little lighter, you could learn more about the > problem. Or, maybe KDE system guard has a logging system that could be > looked at or activated. Thats something I'll look into. I'm sure (as in so many 'Nix things!) there is a log somewhere... > Interesting. I installed the bastille firewall in one of the first > installation iterations that I did, but then I read in Linux Journal some > articles about iptables. After that I started searching the net and found a > SLEW of iptables scripts. This to me seemed a better way to create and > control the firewall; perhaps bastille does the same thing(using iptables), > but I figured I wouldn't learn anything new by letting bastille do all the > background work. In any case, I was thinking that an iptables script may be > out there on the net for you that allows D2-LOD to pass through the ports > that it wants to have. At the very least, the docs will tell you how to > construct and issue an iptables command(s) to allow access to the ports you > need. You can learn a lot just by looking at Bastilles' config file. I've been looking it over, it seems to be very thoroughly commented. Hopefully, I can (with my limited knowledge) figure something out. > If you want to see what D2 is doing while you're on the local lan and > playing, so you can record what exactly it is doing with what ports and how, > there's a kewl utility out there that I use called netwatch. Check it out > here: > > http://www.slctech.org/~mackay/netwatch.html > > When you get it installed, use the left/right arrow keys to change your > views. I was impressed with the things I could track using netwatch. > Somebody out there may know about a more informative utility; but as yet I > haven't found one. I'll check that out, thanks! <snip> > But hey, that was nothing compared to when the main entrance screen for > Baldur's Gate 2 came up, and the music flowed out of my stereo system. I > know I looked stupid with my mouth hanging open and my eyes popping out, > frozen solid for ten minutes... ;) Kinda like the look on my 11 year olds face when I showed him D2 under Linux. He walked off - muttering - "you got Diablo working under Linux?"... ;-) > You been tracking that online game Shadowbane, by any chance? I heard it was > going to be the bomb! Man, if they could get the online stuff working under > winex, wouldn't that be totally it? No, I hadn't been following that one (so much 'Nix stuff - so little time!) <smile>. I've been keeping my fingers crossed that "Neverwinter Nights" would make it over to us...Tux Games still has a March release date so I'm hoping. I was really saddened to hear about Loki Games closing down. I had bought quite a few games from them. On a happier note, others seem to be still pushing the Linux gaming front forwards so... ;-) -- /\ Dark><Lord \/
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