Denis wrote: >> He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need acroread?" and get >> the full complete answer. In my experience very few people actually need all >> the features in acroread, and okular|evince are quite adequate >> > > I am flexible on acroread, but acroread doesn't crash X - just gets a > little backed up. I am OK with that. > > But X crashing from my use of Mathematica is absolutely unacceptable - > this is what I need for my work. Before I upgraded to xorg-1.6 and > libxcb-1.4, this *never* happened, not once, *in several years*, under > extensive use, and I have been using the same Mathematica version all > this time, 5.2. So if downgrading X and libxcb is what I have to do > to restore reliable operation of my machine with Mathematica, then > this is what I am doing next. > > Let me ask this next: is the downgrade of libxcb and xorg-server possible? > > >
I have downgraded xorg-server before and it is not to bad. Just mask the current version and do a emerge -uvDNa world. You may have to mask a couple more packages but the error will tell you which ones they are. I was able to just mask the one tho. If you are using hal, you may have to reemerge the mouse and keyboard drivers. I find them using this: equery list xf86-input That should list the drivers that need to be reemerged. I have three. Dale :-) :-)
