Re: adaptive traffic shaping with shorewall?

2010-10-16 Thread lee
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 06:48:01PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > On 10/16/2010 03:37 PM, lee wrote: > >Hi, > > > >is it possible to implement adaptive traffic shaping with shorewall? > > Yes by using HTB with the traffic shaper: > http://www.shorewall.net/traffic_shaping.htm > > It is very easy to use

Re: adaptive traffic shaping with shorewall?

2010-10-16 Thread Sam Leon
On 10/16/2010 03:37 PM, lee wrote: Hi, is it possible to implement adaptive traffic shaping with shorewall? What I have in mind is, for example, to be able to specify that outgoing ftp traffic shouldn´t use more than 1/4 of the total bandwidth if the other 3/4 of it are used otherwise. When the

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20101016131902.25d86...@snapdragon>, Morgan Gangwere wrote: >On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:35:23 -0400 Jordan Metzmeier <> wrote: >> I don't think advising against using Debian software is in the best >> interest of Debian or its users. > >Providing debs of Chromium is like providing debs of Enlighten

Re: Seahorse Terminal Messages

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:50:23 -0600 pcr wrote: > I used Seahorse version 2.30.1 from the command line today and saw > these messages in my > terminal; Are they important and could someone tell the developer for > me (I don't know how)? > > ~$ seahorse > ** Message: init gpgme version 1.2.0 > > (

Seahorse Terminal Messages

2010-10-16 Thread pcr
I used Seahorse version 2.30.1 from the command line today and saw these messages in my terminal; Are they important and could someone tell the developer for me (I don't know how)? ~$ seahorse ** Message: init gpgme version 1.2.0 (gnome-help:5094): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tool_button_new: assertion

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Anticept .
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/16/2010 03:20 PM, Anticept . wrote: > [snip] >> >> Use ... google DNS. > > So instead of "just" knowing everything you search, and all of your email, > they also know everywhere you surf? > > -- > Seek truth from facts. > I'm not concern

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/16/2010 03:20 PM, Anticept . wrote: [snip] Use ... google DNS. So instead of "just" knowing everything you search, and all of your email, they also know everywhere you surf? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

latest testing netinstall cd refuses to mount itself on usb cd-drive after start of installation

2010-10-16 Thread Jean-Bernard Addor
Hi! I do not know how to submit this kind of error. Install just began and asked for a special file, but my usb cd-driver does not need anything with lots of live cd and all other version of debian I already installed. Have a nice day, Jean-Bernard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: no microphone in ekiga

2010-10-16 Thread lee
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 01:55:24AM +0200, lee wrote: > Unfortunately, ekiga is the only phone that would work. Twinkle > remains unable to receive incoming calls; ekiga does, but it´s useless > without a microphone. I´ve also tried linphone and qutecom, but they > don´t work at all. Ok, twinkle is

adaptive traffic shaping with shorewall?

2010-10-16 Thread lee
Hi, is it possible to implement adaptive traffic shaping with shorewall? What I have in mind is, for example, to be able to specify that outgoing ftp traffic shouldn´t use more than 1/4 of the total bandwidth if the other 3/4 of it are used otherwise. When there´s free bandwidth, the outgoing ftp

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Anticept .
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: > I have a bizarre problem with the server at 208.245.107.9, which is an > internet broker whose server keeps disconnecting when making data requests. > Their support is blaming the problem on me. > > 208.245.107.9 is used by a huge number of clie

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:11:46 +0100 Adam Hardy <> wrote: [stuff] Nope you're not the only one: ( 4:~ )%ping -s 1473 208.245.107.9 PING 208.245.107.9 (208.245.107.9) 1473(1501) bytes of data. ^C --- 208.245.107.9 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3022ms

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <> wrote: [...] Had any electrical storms? Switches that have been acting up? New carpeting? Power outages? Brownouts? Etc? Sounds like the device is busted, frankly. -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc BOFH

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 16 October 2010 10:57:30 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> writes: > > "dmesg | grep eth" gives the folloing output: > > > > eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) > > > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 + (UTC) Camaleón <> wrote: >

Re: Nvidia Proprietary Driver

2010-10-16 Thread David Baron
> > As followup to my post on Nouveau, which I would prefer using, the > > installation of the gallium experimental driver involves too many > > experimental packages. I installed nvidia's driver (for newer 620GeForce > > 6200 TurboCache) without a hitch ... almost. > > > > AFTER X is up, the cons

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:35:23 -0400 Jordan Metzmeier <> wrote: > > I don't think advising against using Debian software is in the best > interest of Debian or its users. Providing debs of Chromium is like providing debs of Enlightenment's DR17 branch:

ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Adam Hardy
I thought I knew enough to keep my own home LAN going but I'm stuck on this one and I can't work out what to do next. In fact I thought everything was fine until I tried pinging with big packet sizes. ping -s 1472 www.bbc.co.uk ping -s 1472 208.245.107.9 works fine, no packet loss ever. ping

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> writes: > "dmesg | grep eth" gives the folloing output: > > eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 + (UTC) Camaleón <> wrote: > >> But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter >> (fire

Re: ATI problems

2010-10-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:45, Klaus Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > sorry, but try this: > > sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd > > This new one should work. radeonhd is old any basically abandoned. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: iceape locks up on some web sites

2010-10-16 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:22 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote: > This is an occasional problem. For most web sites iceape works > perfectly. > > To identify the source of the problem I started iceape from a terminal > window and found failure to pre-load libaoss.so is part of the > problem. > > alsa-os

Re: Debian Sid questions on compiz, missing xorg.conf etc

2010-10-16 Thread Shuanghe
Thanks a lot Kelly. just letting you know that now the tapping on touchpad works following the instruction in the link you provided.!! On 28 September 2010 00:08, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 14:34, Shuanghe wrote: > > Hi, dear all Debian user, > > > > I have a few questions r

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/16/2010 02:16 PM, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:30:02 +0200 David Baron <> wrote: > >> I have had chromium browser (not Google's) suddenly eat all my >> system's memory (2G worth), step into swap, and the system is >> paralyz

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be > dead. At boot, I get the following message: > > Setting up networking > Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such de

OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 + (UTC) Camaleón <> wrote: > But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter > (firewire to ethernet)? :-? the 1394 standard says that a computer which supports 1394 must also support "1394 networking". Short end of it, if you need to move some data b

Re: Nvidia Proprietary Driver

2010-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/16/2010 12:37 PM, David Baron wrote: As followup to my post on Nouveau, which I would prefer using, the installation of the gallium experimental driver involves too many experimental packages. I installed nvidia's driver (for newer 620GeForce 6200 TurboCache) without a hitch ... almost. AF

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:30:02 +0200 David Baron <> wrote: > I have had chromium browser (not Google's) suddenly eat all my > system's memory (2G worth), step into swap, and the system is > paralyzed. I can eventually kill it without a need to hit the big > switch. a) did you install via a package?

Re: Squeeze can't handle ATI M3's anymore. (X11 issue)

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:12:52 + (UTC) Camaleón <> wrote: > It can fail. Xorg autodetection is not a "rocket science" :-) I'm just rather astonished that its failing more than it used to. > I would look at xorg logs (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) and if you estimate > convenient (and _not using_ ati pr

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/16/2010 12:30 PM, David Baron wrote: I have had chromium browser (not Google's) suddenly eat all my system's memory (2G worth), step into swap, and the system is paralyzed. I can eventually kill it without a need to hit the big switch. This is only on certain sites. Anyone had this problem

Nvidia Proprietary Driver

2010-10-16 Thread David Baron
As followup to my post on Nouveau, which I would prefer using, the installation of the gallium experimental driver involves too many experimental packages. I installed nvidia's driver (for newer 620GeForce 6200 TurboCache) without a hitch ... almost. AFTER X is up, the consoles (alt-shift-F1...

Re: problem with postfix and maildrop

2010-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/16/2010 09:43 AM, Christian Pinedo Zamalloa wrote: [snip] r...@xx I have googled and I don't find anything. I give you more information: # ls -lhd /root drwxr-x--- 18 root root 1,0K oct 16 16:38 /root # ls -lhd /root/Maildir/ drwx-- 6 root

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 10/16/2010 01:30 PM, David Baron wrote: > I have had chromium browser (not Google's) suddenly eat all my system's > memory > (2G worth), step into swap, and the system is paralyzed. I can eventually > kill > it without a need to hit the big switch. > > This is only on certain sites. Anyone

Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread David Baron
I have had chromium browser (not Google's) suddenly eat all my system's memory (2G worth), step into swap, and the system is paralyzed. I can eventually kill it without a need to hit the big switch. This is only on certain sites. Anyone had this problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: problem with postfix and maildrop

2010-10-16 Thread Christian Pinedo Zamalloa
2010/10/16 Stan Hoeppner : > Christian Pinedo Zamalloa put forth on 10/16/2010 9:43 AM: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a problem with postfix  and maildrop that I can't resolve. I >> would swear that all worked fine with Debian Etch and I have the >> problem since I upgraded to Debian Lenny. I have instal

Re: problem with postfix and maildrop

2010-10-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Christian Pinedo Zamalloa put forth on 10/16/2010 9:43 AM: > Hi all, > > I have a problem with postfix and maildrop that I can't resolve. I > would swear that all worked fine with Debian Etch and I have the > problem since I upgraded to Debian Lenny. I have installed postfix as > MTA and maildrop

Re: ATI problems

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:45:14 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > Am Samstag, den 16.10.2010, 16:35 + schrieb Camaleón: >> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:20:27 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: >> >> > I think, before some time I read, that ATI-cards only works with >> > VESA-Driver under compiz. >> > Sorry, but I cant

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 16. 10. 2010 18:15:12 je Camaleón napisal(a): > With Knoppix 6.0, I ran `ifconfig -a' and got the following output: > > loLink encap:Local Loopback > LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX > packets:0 error

Re: ATI problems

2010-10-16 Thread Klaus Wolf
Hi, sorry, but try this: sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd This new one should work. klaus for Camaleón if you read mail send 18:32 you could read in LINUX-Magazin that this was Mesa and not VESA Sorry Klaus Am Samstag, den 16.10.2010, 16:35 + schrieb Camaleón: > On Sat

Re: ATI problems

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:20:27 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > I think, before some time I read, that ATI-cards only works with > VESA-Driver under compiz. > Sorry, but I cant say, where I read this. How could it be that? :-? Compiz requires a graphical driver that provides hardware acceleration and V

Re: ATI problems

2010-10-16 Thread Klaus Wolf
Hi, take all return and say the same :-) . Please read http://www.linux-magazin.de/NEWS/ATI-Grafiktreiber-kann-Compiz klaus Hi, I think, before some time I read, that ATI-cards only works with VESA-Driver under compiz. Sorry, but I cant say, where I read this. Greatings and a nice da

Re: ATI problems

2010-10-16 Thread Klaus Wolf
Hi, I think, before some time I read, that ATI-cards only works with VESA-Driver under compiz. Sorry, but I cant say, where I read this. Greatings and a nice day klaus Am Samstag, den 16.10.2010, 11:51 -0400 schrieb B. Alexander: > Hi, > > For the past several months, I have been unable to run

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:41:05 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (...) > Umarzuki Mochlis writes: > >> you could try using any live cd (e.g. debian live cd) to see if it is >> the software/hardware that are problematic > > > > Camaleón writes: > >> (please, open a new thread if you change the themat

ATI problems

2010-10-16 Thread B. Alexander
Hi, For the past several months, I have been unable to run Compiz on my desktop at work. At home, I run KDE 4.4.5 and use compiz 0.8.4 for compositing. On this box, I have a GeForce 8600GT video card and am using the closed nvidia driver. At work, I have a similar configuration, but I have an ATI

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-16 Thread Chris Davies
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > I have this cif share in my /etc/fstab which is not mounted during boot > and I can't figure out why: > After boot, giving a "mount -a" as root mounts it without problem. I appreciate that you think you've found the root of this problem (another post). But I'm wondering i

problem with postfix and maildrop

2010-10-16 Thread Christian Pinedo Zamalloa
Hi all, I have a problem with postfix and maildrop that I can't resolve. I would swear that all worked fine with Debian Etch and I have the problem since I upgraded to Debian Lenny. I have installed postfix as MTA and maildrop as MDA and it's configured as follows: /etc/postfix/main.cf: mailbox_

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be > dead. At boot, I get the following message: > > Setting up networking > Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such dev

Re: no microphone in ekiga

2010-10-16 Thread lee
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 01:04:32PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:50:50 +0200, lee wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:04:07AM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> (...) > >> > >> What kind of micro are we talking here? Jack audio, USB headset, > >> Bluetooth... > > > > It´s a hea

Re: module-assistant not detecting kernel headers

2010-10-16 Thread Anticept .
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Anticept . wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 06:19:49AM -0400, Anticept . wrote: >>> >>> Fixed that symlink too, unfortunately this did not help. >>> >>> Module-assistant appears to be malfunctioning as well.

Re: no microphone in ekiga

2010-10-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 01:04:32PM +, Camaleón wrote: > This can sound quite simple but, have you also reviewed the microphone > volume setting in Ekiga? How did you test your microphone? Is people > saying that they cannot hear you? What about their volume settings? What > SIP provider? Man

Re: no microphone in ekiga

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:50:50 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:04:07AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> (...) >> >> What kind of micro are we talking here? Jack audio, USB headset, >> Bluetooth... > > It´s a headset plugged into the soundcard which uses alsa. Ekiga is the > only applicati

Re: no microphone in ekiga

2010-10-16 Thread lee
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:04:07AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:55:24 +0200, lee wrote: > > > ekiga doesn´t get any input from the microphone, though it´s working > > fine with other applications. Many users seem to have this problem, but > > I haven´t found anyone who was able

Re: iceape locks up on some web sites

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:22:49 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: (...) > Script started on Fri 15 Oct 2010 05:12:46 PM EDT t...@dragon:~$ iceape > ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be > preloaded: ignored. This could be in connection with this bug: http://bugs.debian

Re: Squeeze can't handle ATI M3's anymore. (X11 issue)

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:42:33 -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote: (...) > Once you have it configured using xorg.conf, it works fine, but X's > autodetection seems to have failed more and more over time... It can fail. Xorg autodetection is not a "rocket science" :-) I would look at xorg logs (/var/lo

Re: no microphone in ekiga

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:55:24 +0200, lee wrote: > ekiga doesn´t get any input from the microphone, though it´s working > fine with other applications. Many users seem to have this problem, but > I haven´t found anyone who was able to fix it. (...) What kind of micro are we talking here? Jack audi

Re: no microphone in ekiga

2010-10-16 Thread lee
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 04:20:04AM +0400, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > well, qutecom/wengophone always worked fine for me, never used ekiga, can't > help with that what problems do you have with qutecom? mic? no incomming > calls? Qutecom was unsuccessful in making or receiving calls and likes

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:15:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (please, open a new thread if you change the thematic of the e-mail) > The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to > be dead. At boot, I get the following message: > > Setting up networking > Configuring

Re: no microphone in ekiga

2010-10-16 Thread lee
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 08:11:27AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Rob Owens writes: > > > I use Ekiga. You need to try different settings under Preferences, > > Audio Devices, Input Device. > > I'm using Ekiga too and my microphone works fine. > > I'm using sound devices in Ekiga/menu/Edit/Setting

Re: no microphone in ekiga

2010-10-16 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:59:08PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I use Ekiga. You need to try different settings under Preferences, > Audio Devices, Input Device. Yes, I tried all the devices there, but for others than the default alsa device, ekiga says that only silence is being recorded or that th

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
you could try using any live cd (e.g. debian live cd) to see if it is the software/hardware that are problematic 2010/10/16 Rodolfo Medina > The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be > dead. At boot, I get the following message: > > Setting up networking >

Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be dead. At boot, I get the following message: Setting up networking Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device e