[expert] MandrakeUpdates - command line version?

2001-02-20 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan
Is there some command line equivalent for MandrakeUpdate? It would be very useful for a remote system I take care of, particularly for security updates. - Jerry

[expert] Realplayer 8 sound only as root

2001-02-17 Thread Jerry Sternesky
that is no big deal. This seems to have started since I upgraded gnome to helix, installed evolution and the natulis (which broke evolution). Any way I would like to get realplayer back under my user account. Thanks, Jerry

Re: [expert] gnome questions

2001-02-16 Thread Jerry Sternesky
.5. Could this be causing issue with the pilot sync? I also, don't seem to have a package called gnome-xml installed. I would love to get this going, so if you have any thoughts or suggestions I would appreciate them. Thanks again for all your help, Jerry S. On Monday 12 February 2001

[expert] Gnome/Evolution Part2

2001-02-15 Thread Jerry Sternesky
up on the menus, but when it opens up the pilot-link conduits under gnome configuration there are no evolution coduits there. Any thoughts? Jerry S.

Re: [expert] gnome questions

2001-02-13 Thread Jerry Sternesky
t that point. The stable Evo version is from 1/13. I'm waiting > for a concensus from the list as to the next one to grab. I've made this > my day-to-day mail app and can't afford stability issues. > > On 12 Feb 2001 12:48:37 -0500, Jerry Sternesky wrote: > > I downlo

Re: [expert] gnome questions

2001-02-12 Thread Jerry Sternesky
t; to have this much fun with other OS'es, do we? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jerry Sternesky > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 10:27 AM > To: Neal Lippman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] gnome questions

Re: [expert] gnome questions

2001-02-12 Thread Jerry Sternesky
you using the stock CD Gnome? If so it may > > be worth your time to 'upgrade'. As for the sound in Gnome, for some > > reason I have to keep Gmix active for sound - that's a mystery I haven't > > been able to solve. I'm using Alsa drivers for my AC97, but

Re: [expert] gnome questions

2001-02-11 Thread Jerry Sternesky
m all from 1 place in 1 shot? Thanks, Jerry On Sunday 11 February 2001 11:54, Bill Piety wrote: > I have a stable Ximian (Helix) Gnome, with Nautilus & Evolution (which > is great). According to the Evo mailing lists, the pilot sync'ing works > - don't have one myself. Are

Re: [expert] Cups / Samba Printing issue - Unsupported Format?

2001-02-11 Thread Jerry Sternesky
What drivers are you using in widows? The printer drivers or generic postscript? If you are using the printer drivers, you need to have your print command in smb.conf as follows: lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r Jerry On Saturday 10 February 2001 22:35, Albert E. Whale wrote: > I am getting

[expert] gnome questions

2001-02-10 Thread Jerry Sternesky
ll I want. Any thoughts, suggestions? BTW on an old install, I didn't have much luck with kpilot so I figures I would give gnome a shot. Thanks, Jerry

Re: [expert] Article about Mandrakesoft's "new direction"

2001-02-06 Thread Jerry Sternesky
ake 7.2, I had tons of problems with Mandrake and > sound - but, it does works fine now with 7.2. So, sound card results > vary from from person to person, even with the same card, and you can't > say that SuSe has no sound. > > philomena > > Jerry Sternesky wrote: > >

Re: [expert] Article about Mandrakesoft's "new direction"

2001-02-06 Thread Jerry Sternesky
I couldn't get sound to work for my sound blaster live card when I tried Suse 6.1, even with downloading the emu10k patch from creative. Yast or what ever that thing was keep giving me grief when i tried to configure it. I had that same sound card functioning under redhat before trying suse.

Re: [expert] Tweaking Harddrives - Any More Tips?

2001-02-04 Thread Jerry Sternesky
On Sunday February 2001 12:30 Jerry wrote: I add mine to rc.sysinit and it held all day yesterday with some heavy use, and a couple of trial reboots seem to show no problems with it getting activated. Thanks, Jerry On Friday 02 February 2001 03:04, s wrote: > I've read that you nee

Re: [expert] Tweaking Harddrives - Any More Tips?

2001-02-02 Thread Jerry Sternesky
save the settings? Is there a way to make it save these setting with out editing an init script, if not which script to I add it do rc.local? sysinit? Thanks, Jerry On Tuesday 30 January 2001 07:50, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > I'm trying to improve my HD's performance. > > HDPARM

[expert] Mandrake 7.2 cannot mount my CD

2001-01-28 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan
ge since I got Mandrake 7.0 last year.] Any hints? This must be simple. -Jerry

Re: [expert] epson 777

2001-01-28 Thread Jerry Sternesky
On Sunday 28 January 2001 12:51, lorne schachter wrote: I can't coment on Mandrake 7.1, but using cups under 7.2 my epson 777 is working well. > > I just got an Epson 777. It prints under Windows, but when I switch > over to LINUX (Mandrake 7.1) - nada. > Anyone have any suggestions (I'll p

Re: [expert] help with SAMBA & CUPS

2001-01-27 Thread Jerry Sternesky
lp, restarted samba and all has worked. I have the raw option because I am using the windows drivers and not a gereric ps printer. Maybe this will help you, I beat my head for a couple of day before I saw the obvious. Jerry S. On Saturday 27 January 2001 00:41, Wood Brent wrote: > Thanks in a

[expert] Intel 815e no sound

2001-01-21 Thread Jerry Sternesky
fix, but after searching mandrake mailing lists and mandrakeuser.org I am more confused than ever. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Jerry

[expert] Nvidia drivers .96 for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-01-19 Thread Jerry L. Kazdan
6.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-6.i386.rpm Mandrake 7.1, SMP kernel: NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.mdk71smp.i386.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-6.i386.rpm Will these same drivers work for Mandrake 7.2? If not, how should one proceed for Mandrake 7.2? Jerry

Re: [expert] Cups is winning the battle

2001-01-18 Thread Jerry Sternesky
everything started working. Thanks, Jerry > Jerry, > > It would appear I'm totally irritated and irritating tonight (sigh). > > Glad you got it sorted out, and replying to your own e-mail is not bad > form if it adds useful and relevant info to your original post, which, in

Re: [expert] Cups is winning the battle

2001-01-18 Thread Jerry Sternesky
On Thursday 18 January 2001 20:39, Jerry Sternesky wrote: OK Bad form replying to your own email. But I straightened the issue out. Sometime typing out the problem helps you see the problem. As in this case, the jobs were sitting in /var/spool/samba so I typed lpr-cups -P lp -o raw

Re: [expert] Cups is winning the battle

2001-01-18 Thread Jerry Sternesky
cupsd.conf LogLevel info Port 631 AuthType Basic AuthClass System So Since I can print from the server itself and from a client, I think the issue is with samba. Thanks in advance. > On 16-Jan-2001 Jerry Sternesky wrote: > > It seems I am having lots of problems with cups. When I install

[expert] Cups is winning the battle

2001-01-16 Thread Jerry Sternesky
ng how-to's and faq's if anyone has some good ones besides the ones on mandrakeuser.org to point me to I would appreciate it. BTW this machine is current as of 1/15 with all the updates for 7.2. Thanks, Jerry

Re: [expert] Upgrading to X v4

2001-01-16 Thread Jerry Sternesky
On Tuesday 16 January 2001 00:32, you wrote: XFree86 -configure works > I'm interested in upgrading from my current 3.3.6 (which came with LM > 7.2), and moving up to the latest X 4.0.2. > > 1. I'm using a Diamond Viper V770 video board (i.e., Rvia TNT2 chip). > I've heard both - that it doesn't

Re: [expert] nVidia question

2001-01-09 Thread Jerry Sternesky
gart or an irq conflict giving you grief. Did x start before you added the nvidia drivers? Hope this helps Jerry > Hi, >I've tried following the suggestions on the MandrakeUser site, the > nVidia site, and any others I could find out there.. I still cannot get > the bloo

[expert] RPM Hell

2001-01-08 Thread Jerry Sternesky
alled, rpm -i slaps me with packages installed. rpm -rebuilddb ran, but didn't fix the deal. rpm -e --justdb pilot-link (either version) returns package not installed. Any thoughts? Ideas? This is basiclly a scream for HELP! Jerry S.

Re: [expert] RealPlayer

2001-01-07 Thread Jerry Sternesky
ost likely an issue of mime types and application helpers. If that is the case check out an earlier email in this thread that had the instructions for setting up the mime types. Jerry > Correction: There is a player avaliable for Linux called `RealPlayer 8' > from Real. > >

Re: [expert] RealPlayer

2001-01-07 Thread Jerry Sternesky
On Sunday 07 January 2001 07:39, you wrote: I download realplayer myself yesterday: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm About indicates: version 8.0.3.412 When I installed rp7 I had to manually add the mime types to Netscape, I had followed the same instructions that were posted in Larry's reply.

Re: [expert] Intel 815e

2001-01-03 Thread Jerry Sternesky
some mesa lib's laying around, just never bother looking for them. On Wednesday 20 December 2000 19:46, Onur wrote: > Hello Jerry, > > JS> I sent this a couple of days ago and it seems it never made it to the > list. > > JS> I will be getting an intel 815e motherboard with on

Re: [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after install?

2001-01-03 Thread Jerry Sternesky
On Wednesday 03 January 2001 06:07, you wrote: If you are trying to telnet into the box and can't check and see if telnet-server is installed. I choose a developer install and it wasn't added, don't ask me why since I can't code. Check out secure Shell (ssh) if you want to remotly login to

Re: [expert] Intel 815e

2001-01-03 Thread Jerry Sternesky
e and if I don't come across many problems > with Mandrake 7.2. The following is my system with Mandrake 7.2 > running: > > PIII 866 > 256 MB SDRAM > Asus CUSL2-C MB > GeFroce II MX > SB Live > DEC "tulip" Ethernet card > DVD ROM > CD Writer >

Re: [expert] Remote X

2001-01-02 Thread Jerry Sternesky
on it as a "bug" yet. Thanks Again, Jerry > KDE I thought had the ability now in 2.x to do sound > over X... I thought that is what the options were > for in Look and Feel --- Sound --- and the network > transparency and all were for. Of course I am > probably incorrect

[expert] Remote X

2001-01-02 Thread Jerry Sternesky
ine accessable by all clients. Is this even the right route for that? Or should I be reading different how-to's? Thanks Again, Jerry

[expert] Intel 815e

2001-01-02 Thread Jerry Sternesky
some games. If anybody has some experience with these I would appreciate their feedback, since I won't tackle this until the weekend I am trying to plan ahead. Thanks Jerry

Re: [expert] Mounting an NTFS drive

2000-12-27 Thread Jerry Sternesky
On Wednesday 27 December 2000 12:12, Brian Hartman wrote: It would first be server name, exported dir, local dir to mount to nfs file type then options for example a machine called server exporting exported/share to be mount on client at mnt/server would look as follows: server:/exported/share

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update link

2000-12-27 Thread Jerry Sternesky
I have a cable modem also, on the comcast/@home network and lately wtfo.com is the only one that works for me. I have also noticed that @home seems to have problems from time to time hitting some sites, at different times of the day. I was chalking it up to a router issue with @home since I h

Re: [expert] Quake2 - won't run...??

2000-12-23 Thread Jerry Sternesky
On Saturday 23 December 2000 18:10, you wrote: Here is a site that might be able to help you out: http://www.linuxquake.com I didn't see what video card you have? If you have opengl installed and working. Did it run for you in the past and just stop? BTW I checked my quake2 dir and I have no

[expert] Home Networking Feedback needed

2000-12-23 Thread Jerry Sternesky
enter information for me to see and accept into my scheduler, plus have the kids have there own. Any recommendations on such a program? OK I have gone on long enough, any thoughts from you guys? Thanks, Jerry S.

[expert] compiling gpilot for visor

2000-12-02 Thread Jerry Sternesky
I can remove the files placed by the make install without deleting them all by hand I would appreciate it. Thanks, Jerry S. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] 7.2 Very disappointed

2000-11-07 Thread Jerry Sternesky
I tried to upgrade a machine from Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2. Mostly I wanted to get cups installed and working on this machine since it is a server with a printer for all my clients. What the upgrade did was take a working machine and in 7 ours of upgrade time render it into a useless machine. It has

[expert] 7.2 Install Problems

2000-11-01 Thread Jerry Sternesky
ts (helpfull ones please) Jerry S. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Jerry Mulvaney
nected, unless I umount /mnt/floppy before I shut down. Alternately, > > disable supermount (/etc/fstab) which was my solution. > > Jerry > > Jerry, > How were you able to accomplish this? Did you just delete the term > "supermount" from fstab as in: > >

[expert] LILO 0,1 LI Help

2000-07-17 Thread Jerry Mulvaney
nd 1's. Not sure what the prob is, I was using RH 6.1 w/ no probs, but really liked Mandrake 7.1 on my laptop so decided to put it on my main box. The array is 6 4 gig drives, raid 0. Any help would certainly be appreciated! Jerry

[expert] Supermount & warning message/ gnome help / gnome explorer

2000-02-03 Thread Mulvaney, Jerry
the gnome explorer? Thanks, Jerry *** "My PID is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi." ***

RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility

1999-10-09 Thread Mulvaney, Jerry
y, October 09, 1999 3:37 PM > To: Mulvaney, Jerry > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility > > > Wonderful... > > so what make/model of pcmcia ether and modem are best to use > on linux and > vmwa

RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility

1999-10-09 Thread Mulvaney, Jerry
k on both linux and the guest OS simultaneously? Thanks Ricardo On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Mulvaney, Jerry wrote: > I've got 2 vmware partitions, one W98 and one NT- NT is certainly the best > performing. Full screen also seems to run better than windowed for some > reason- dunno why, but

RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility

1999-10-09 Thread Mulvaney, Jerry
I've got 2 vmware partitions, one W98 and one NT- NT is certainly the best performing. Full screen also seems to run better than windowed for some reason- dunno why, but it's noticeable. I also have vmware running on a laptop P II 233, runs great but I have 128 megs of ram which helps. At 0

RE: [expert] dial up at command prompt

1999-10-06 Thread Mulvaney, Jerry
nership to my regular user and it was fine but not secure (Not like anyone > can do much with it on my machine, but I like secure... secure is good). There is a checkbox in netcfg that says something like "Allow users to (de)activate this device". Check it and normal users can use it

[expert] dial up at command prompt

1999-10-05 Thread Mulvaney, Jerry
Everything works great under Mandrake 6.0, but I can't find out how to start a dial up connection without starting X and running netcfg. Can I do this from the command line? Thanks!

[expert] WaveLan, RF configuration help needed!

1999-01-16 Thread Mulvaney, Jerry
I've managed to get my laptop to recognize my Lucent Wavelan card, but not sure where to go from here- I dl'ed the wireless tools package, but it wouldn't compile, as I was warned it might not. If there's a way I can configure it manually, I'd sure appreciate the help. Thanks!

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