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On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:58:22 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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> On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:54:00 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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>> On Sat 14 Jul 2012 07:22:33 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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>>> On Jul 13, 2012 10:37 PM, "Michael Hampicke" <gentoo-user@××××.biz |
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>>> <mailto:gentoo-user@××××.biz>> wrote: |
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>>> > > Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have |
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>>> gone |
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>>> > > unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every start |
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>>> (I see a |
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>>> > > segfault by the equalizer module). |
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>>> > I had lots of graphics related problems with gnome3.2 - from render |
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>>> > errors to system freezes. So in a desperate move I unmasked gnome3.4 |
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>>> > (from the overlay) and installed it. Installing (and maintaining) |
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>>> 3.4 is |
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>>> > a bit hairy, but all my problems have gone since that. |
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>>> > So if recompiling with O2 does not help, and you don't mind bleeding |
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>>> > edge packages on your system, try 3.4 |
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>>> Already on gnome 3.4, unmasked from default portage, no overlay. |
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>>> Complete rebuild over with O2, still getting these errors: |
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>>> Http://bpaste.net/show/34934 |
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>> It seems I was using only gnome-shell 3.4 and did not update others. |
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>> Now I unmasked 3.4 completely (gnome-base/*, gnome-extra/*). |
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>> It's much more stable than 3.2, except for the two faults I pasted |
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>> above. |
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>> Watching this thing now for crashes, will post update soon. |
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> And boo.. it crashed just after writing the previous mail. Upto 3 |
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> windows on the single workspace was good, with 4 it crashed. :| |
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> No faults reported in dmesg though. |
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> Is my video card incompetent? |
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I'm compelled to concolude that GNOME3 simply does not work on 4-5 year |
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old hardware. Yeah, on a Dual Core 2 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, and i945 128 MB. |
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I'm back to my cozy place, KDE and alsaequal (instead of pulseaudio). |
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***thread closed*** |
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Nilesh Govindrajan |
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http://nileshgr.com |