On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:58:22 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> >> On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:54:00 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >>> >>> On Sat 14 Jul 2012 07:22:33 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jul 13, 2012 10:37 PM, "Michael Hampicke" <gentoo-u...@hadt.biz >>>> <mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > > Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have >>>> gone >>>> > > unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every start >>>> (I see a >>>> > > segfault by the equalizer module). >>>> > >>>> > I had lots of graphics related problems with gnome3.2 - from render >>>> > errors to system freezes. So in a desperate move I unmasked gnome3.4 >>>> > (from the overlay) and installed it. Installing (and maintaining) >>>> 3.4 is >>>> > a bit hairy, but all my problems have gone since that. >>>> > >>>> > So if recompiling with O2 does not help, and you don't mind bleeding >>>> > edge packages on your system, try 3.4 >>>> > >>>> >>>> Already on gnome 3.4, unmasked from default portage, no overlay. >>>> >>>> Complete rebuild over with O2, still getting these errors: >>>> >>>> Http://bpaste.net/show/34934 >>>> >>> >>> It seems I was using only gnome-shell 3.4 and did not update others. >>> Now I unmasked 3.4 completely (gnome-base/*, gnome-extra/*). >>> It's much more stable than 3.2, except for the two faults I pasted >>> above. >>> >>> Watching this thing now for crashes, will post update soon. >>> >> >> And boo.. it crashed just after writing the previous mail. Upto 3 >> windows on the single workspace was good, with 4 it crashed. :| >> >> No faults reported in dmesg though. >> >> Is my video card incompetent? >> > > I'm compelled to concolude that GNOME3 simply does not work on 4-5 year old > hardware. Yeah, on a Dual Core 2 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, and i945 128 MB. > > I'm back to my cozy place, KDE and alsaequal (instead of pulseaudio).
I know "works for me" is basically useless, but my laptop is from 2008, a dual core 2.26 GHz with 4 GB of RAM, and an Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller, i915 video card. As I said, works perfectly. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
