Mail Question

Hi all, I want to put a couple of lines in ip-up, so that everytime my ppp is on, it will automatically contact my mail server, send out my username and passwd, retrieve all the mails from the server, and append them to my local INBOX(.incoming-mail). Could anyone please teach me h

Compiling a debianized PINE(another problem)

Hi all, I have downloaded the pine-src and pine-diffs package. Then I ran the command: dpkg-source -x pine_3.96M-1.dsc I then went into the dir pine396, and typed: ./build lnx I got the following error: /usr/src/pine/pine3.96/ima

PPP connection speed

Hi all, I have three ISPs, let me name them A, B and C. A is very new(technology), B & C are relatively old compare to A. In debian, for ISP A, I can have a average download rate 3k/s. But for B & C, the download rate is only about 800bytes/s. But for the same matchine, in RedHat 5.1, I c

Compiling a debianized pine

Hi all, I have downloaded the debian packages pine-src and pine-diff. But when I try to compile the src, I got the following error msg: virge:/usr/src/pine# dpkg-source -x pine_3.96M-1.dsc dpkg-source: extracting pine in pine-3.96M dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or

Re: Debian & Chinese & Netscape!

nese there... Do you know anyway to fix it?? try out at mikemike.simplenet.com On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > But I still cannot display chinese in netscape(3.0). > > With netscape 4.x, Chinese support is

Transparent xterms under Debian

Hi All, When checking out a few screenshots of enlightenment, I saw xterms that appeared to be transparent. Does anyone know how I could set this up in Debian. Thx Zhang Shao Ying Shao Zhang \\/ 5/28-30 V

Thank You All - Ulisses, Wojciech, Johann

Hi all, Thanks very much for helping me get my HP5L working! finally I used the script provided by Wojciech, and everything is fine now. Thanks again. Shao Zhang \\/ 5/28-30 Victoria

Debian & Chinese & Netscape!

Hi all, I have downloaded the chinese package xfntbig5p-cmex24m_0.1-1.deb. I then installed this package, and used the following commands to set font: xset fp+ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/chinese xset fp rehash Now, my crxvt is working fine! But I still c

Filter for HP5L

Hi all, Thanks for your help. I finally managed to get my printer working. Now, I have a new problem. I am using HP5L. I tried to use the filter laserjet-filter, but it gives me error when printing the last page. I have tried out most of other laser* filters, but just waste

Re: Printing Problem

and also as a module. I have tried both lp0 and lp1. But In the boot precess, I can also see the line: starting lpd spoolsomething like that... So what should I do now??? > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi again! > > On Tue, 29 Sep

Re: Printing Problem

e the feeling that it has something to do with the kernel, because I have compiled it for many times On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi Shao! > > On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > > Hi

Recompile Kernel & Sound

Hi all, I just recompiled my kernel. Probably, I missed out an option, or select the wrong option. My sound module can no longer be inserted properly when boots up. Before I had a line sound in my /etc/modules, and everything is fine. Now I will have to do insmod sound a

PPP Connection Speed

Hi all, Could anyone please help me with this? Somehow, I cannot get a fast ppp connection anymore.

Vi problem!

Hi all, Does anyone aware of this situation: When you run vi, if you are in the command mode, and then resize your xterm, the text will not be redisplayed unless you hit some keys.. When you in the input mode, it will give you the message: Window resize interrupted the inpu

Re: Another PPP newbie.

check out /var/log/messages, see what is the error. My guess is that you have to set the option noauth. try change the line from auth to noauth in your /etc/ppp/options. On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Monte Copeland wrote: > After having trouble using PPP to connect my new Linux O.S. so that I > could f

Printing Problem

Hi all, I used magicfilter to generate a printcap. when I tried to print something out, it gives me the following error: connection to 'localhost' failed - Conne

DEB vs RPM

Hi all, Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they have 10434 packages listed. Now, do we have this number of deb packages?? Am I missing out any gook web site?? Anyway, we can alway

dpkg(install in /usr/local)

Hi all, Could anyone teach me how to use dpkg to install in a specific directory, such as /usr/local/. Thanks! Shao Zhang \\/ 5/28-30 Victoria AVE OxO PENSHURST 2035

Diamond 3D 2000 with S3V to display 24 bit color

Hi all, I have a Diamond 3D 2000 video card. The chip is S3 Virge. The memory of the videocard is 4 meg. With this configuration, I cannot display 24bit color under XF86. I am pretty sure that my hardware is capable of doing that, as I can do it under NT. When I switch th

Flicking in xterms when using vi

Hi guys, Sorry for asking the same question again.. when I use vi in an xterm, and when I reached the EOF, my xterm started flicking. Someone kindly advised me to set the visual bell off. So I used the command xterm +vb +mb, but it does not work. I then edited my

SB32 PnP & Midi

Hi all, I finally managed to insert the sound module. Now I have another problem, and I never get it work under redhat before. After recompile the sound kernel as a module and installed isapnp tools, now wave and cd is working fine. But midi is not working. I trie

Re: SB16 PnP

On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:46:10 +1000 (EST), Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > > I rebooted with the new kernel and everything seems fine. > > Did you do a "make modules_install"? virge:/usr/src/linux# make modules_i

Re: SB16 PnP

On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:46:10 +1000 (EST), Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > > > I rebooted with the new kernel and everything seems fine. > > Did you do a "make modules_install"? > > > virge:/usr/s

SB16 PnP

Hi all, I just recompiled the kernel, and included sound as a module. I rebooted with the new kernel and everything seems fine. I then use isapnp tools to generate a isapnp.conf. But when I try to test my sound card, I got the following error: vir

Error when recompile the kernel

Hi all, I have got the following error when recompile the kernel, could anyone help me out please?? make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/include -E -D__ELF__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect

xterm-debian

Hi all, Another one! When I telnet to uni(sys V release 4) and run pine, I got the msg that xterm-debian unknown. I made it work by manually setting the XTERM var to VT100. But, is this the formal way or proper way to do it?? What is xterm-debian?? Any additional

cannot find libXpm.so.4 when running netscape

Hi debies, I just moved from redhat to debian. Don't know much about deb package at all. Ok, I tried to run netscape 3.0 and got the error libXpm.so.4, so what pkg do I need?? Thx for the help! regards, Shao. ~~~

Cannot export Path when not login as root

Hi all, I got a little problem. When I login as root, I can export the path properly. But I login as a normal user, my path is not exported properly. It is set to the path defined in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. If I login in an ascii mode, then the path is fine. But

xdm on ttys7 and ttys8

Hi all, in my inittab, I have six ttys running in run level 5. And the xdm is on ttys 7. Could anyone tell me how to get the xdm running in ttys8 as well?? In this case, I can just press ctrl-alt-f8 to change to my second xdm?? Thanks... Regards, Shao ~~

flicking in xterms

Hi all, When I use VI in an xterm with black background, and when I get to EOF, the xterm started flicking. It doesn't happen in rxvt though. I know there are some vars to set to fix it... Anyone give me a quick tip?? Regards, Shao

PPP problem.

Hi all, I am only new to debian. I wrote a dial up script in redhat, and it works well. I recently installed debian 2.0, and used the same dial up script. The system dialed out fine. And ping was working fine. But telnet, ftp & lynx does not work. My /etc/r