Hello. I've got a couple of unrelated questions on which I'd like to ask for enlightenment on. Neither involves and system-threatening problem, but both are currently mystifying me and knowing answers to these questions could help me out in the future. I will be grateful therefore for some input from the list on them.
1) I recently added a new video card - Radeon 7000 - to my Debian Sid machine. As you may (or may not) recall, I was recently having some problems with video corruption that could be recitifed only, apparently, by a reboot. I traced the problem to the "shared video memory" the onboard video output was using, and decided adding a separate card with its own memory might solve the problem - seems to have, thus far. But my question has to do with why, when I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and entered values for the new card, no new XF86Config-4 was created? At least I did not find one in /etc/X11. startx kept failing until I figured out the problem was that the system was trying to use the XF86Config-4 file created for the onboard video. I tried several times and did select, at the end of the process, to write the new file. Was it maybe being saved to somewhere other than /etc/X11? I finally had to edit XF86Config-4 manually to get an X display from the new card. 2)I have a logging firewall (Freesco, running on an older computer) and I look through the logs from time to time. What I mostly see there is fw-in deny TCP entries that tried port 80. Of course I know simple things like that port 80 is for http traffic. But what confuses me is why port 80 on my router/firewall gets these requests so frequently? These show up about about, say 140 times in the log each day (of course they usually come in bunches of 3 or 6, separated by a few seconds interval, so the total is actually lower if figured according to the IP address from which they originate). This firewall/router is on a university ethernet network, btw, and the university has, of course, a website. I assume there are students who run web servers on their connections as well. So, input on why I get so many requests to port 80 on the router/firewall would be appreciated. Thanks, James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
