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From: Christopher E <sensory.access@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Gnome 2.12... to 2.14... on X11 v7!
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:32:38
Message-Id: 184c54640605110628x5cfdf346wa98eb487bd20aac9@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Gnome 2.12... to 2.14... on X11 v7! by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Hello all,
2
3 OK, seeing that this seemsto be a workable setup, which order would
4 you do this in.
5
6 I notice that the new verion of gnome pulls in things of x11 but I
7 don't know if this is for the newer X11 or a older X11.
8
9 Sincerely,
10 Christopher
11
12 On 5/11/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
13 > "Christopher E" <sensory.access@×××××.com> posted
14 > 184c54640605101953m21b513a1v39c4d10b372bf7f2@××××××××××.com, excerpted
15 > below, on Wed, 10 May 2006 22:53:31 -0400:
16 >
17 > > Is there any one running the latest Gnome (2.14) that is ~amd64 with
18 > > the latest X (7) ~amd64?
19 > >
20 > > If so is there any thing I should look out for before emergeing the
21 > > Gnome 2.14 ~amd64?
22 >
23 > Latest? I suppose this makes me a ricer in some camps, but here, I'm
24 > running xorg 7.1-rc2, the latest masked in-tree version as of yesterday,
25 > compiled with a still masked but surprisingly trouble-free gcc-4.1.0.
26 >
27 > (On the gcc thing, pan 0.9x, again still masked and I'm running a version
28 > from a bumped ebuild in my overlay, to get the latest from the site,
29 > requires >300 MB memory to build with gcc 4.1.0, but 1.3 GIGABYTES to
30 > compile with the old and decrepit but latest unmasked gcc 3.4.6. Stumbled
31 > across that when an Gentoo amd64 user couldn't get it compiled on his
32 > ~arch box running gcc-3.4.x, with "only" a gig of memory -- the kernel OOM
33 > killer kept killing it. I tested on my box with 8 gig of memory and came
34 > up with the above numbers.)
35 >
36 > Anyway, no problems beyond the to-be-expected issues with an xorg rc (the
37 > xorg-native radeon driver isn't recognizing ctrl-alt-numplus/numminus
38 > hotkey zooming, at present, tho the xorg log says it sends it, and
39 > krandr/xrandr work), and of course GNOME's retardedness, lacking a place
40 > to type the path in the filechooser unless you ctrl-L hotkey it, etc.
41 >
42 >
43 >
44 > --
45 > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
46 > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
47 > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
48 >
49 > --
50 > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
51 >
52 >
53
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Gnome 2.12... to 2.14... on X11 v7! Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>