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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:29:49
Message-Id: 201010261630.01789.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB by Iain Buchanan
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 14:01 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Iain
2 Buchanan did opine thusly:
3
4 > On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote:
5 > > Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930
6 > > schrieb Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>:
7 > >
8 > > [...]
9 > >
10 > > > Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking...
11 > > > can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x
12 > > > from memory. Sorry for being vague, I'll keep looking.
13 > >
14 > > Ah, I seem to remember the problem was/is mesa 7.8.2 being slow, in which
15 > > case a downgrade helped. Was that it? I can't find the thread myself
16 > > right now, though.
17 >
18 > That's it! mesa tinka yousa system broken! 7.8.2 down to 7.7.1 worked
19 > for the OP:
20 >
21 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/234610
22 >
23 > "Preventing a package from being updated"
24
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26 Can someone who hit this and cured it describe the symptoms seen? I might have
27 the same issue but it's a lot of rebuilding. I might just be suffering from
28 the recent 2.6.33 - 2.6.35 IO issues.
29
30 Throw stuff at wall doesn't strike me as an effective troubleshooting method
31 :-)
32
33 --
34 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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