[gentoo-user] [OT] Questions about building from source tarball

2012-10-30 Thread Walter Dnes
Several years ago, back in the days of Mozilla 0.9x and Phoenix, I used to build Mozilla and/or Pheonix from the source tarball. I've been using Gentoo for years, and I've forgotten a lot about building manually from source. I asked this question on mozillazine.org, but no answers yet.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount and exfat

2012-10-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 06:40 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2012, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It works as root but not via fstab for users. bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type

[gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP (802.11n) Several times a day, this thing just drops wireless. I doubt it's my laptop as other devices in the house also get affected. When this happens I usually manually reconnect using wicd, it can do this automatically but

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:29:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP (802.11n) Several times a day, this thing just drops wireless. I doubt it's my laptop as other devices in the house also get affected. Have you tried switching to a

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
outside interference? (usual is a microwave oven) - is there a device closer to the AP that stays in better lock because the signal is strong enough to override the interference? BillK On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 13:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2

Re: [gentoo-user] From Unstable to Stable: Screen share in Google Hangout and Skype no longer works

2012-10-30 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 26 October 2012 11:13, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to get screen share to work again? Would this depend on unstable OpenRC? Or a later udev? Or a later kernel? Try

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Questions about building from source tarball

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/30/2012 04:56 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Several years ago, back in the days of Mozilla 0.9x and Phoenix, I used to build Mozilla and/or Pheonix from the source tarball. I've been using Gentoo for years, and I've forgotten a lot about building manually from source. I asked this question

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 01:29:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP (802.11n) Several times a day, this thing just drops wireless. I doubt it's my laptop as other devices in the house also get affected. When this happens I usually

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:45:37 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:29:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP (802.11n) Several times a day, this thing just drops wireless. I doubt it's my laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:47:34 +0800 Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: outside interference? (usual is a microwave oven) - is there a device closer to the AP that stays in better lock because the signal is strong enough to override the interference? There is a long range Siemens cordless

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager problem after migrating to systemd

2012-10-30 Thread João Matos
2012/10/29 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:42 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: I found the solution a few hours ago here http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd#PAM_support:_su.2C_sudo.2C_screen. .. . Now everything is fine :) About the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 10/30/2012 9:26 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Actually, I hadn't tried that. I use channel 8 and this is at my house. I've only ever seen 2 other neighbour's APs show up and they both use channel 1. But then common sense kicked in. All previous APs have been 802.11g, this is the first 802.11g,

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager problem after migrating to systemd

2012-10-30 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:45 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/29 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:42 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: I found the solution a few hours ago here

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager problem after migrating to systemd

2012-10-30 Thread João Matos
2012/10/30 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:45 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/29 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:42 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: I found the solution a few hours ago here

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager problem after migrating to systemd

2012-10-30 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:49 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/30 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:45 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/29 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:42 PM, João Matos

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 21:26 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:45:37 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:29:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP (802.11n) Several

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Questions about building from source tarball

2012-10-30 Thread walt
On 10/30/2012 01:56 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Several years ago, back in the days of Mozilla 0.9x and Phoenix, I used to build Mozilla and/or Pheonix from the source tarball. Me too :) Every morning I'd pull from their source repo and build my own and then file bug reports (there were