Gnome 2.8 on amd64? [YES!... mostly]

Tsonn · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 550

Has anyone tried it yet? It's hit ~x86 now, apparently.
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dangertools · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:08 am Post subject:

it is ~amd64 now too. i install it right now

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malloc · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 762

Please tell us how it went, since i've heard about some problems in x86.
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crazycat · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:18 pm Post subject:

no problems here (allthough i use only metacity and gnome-panel from gnome and rox for everything else

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Tsonn · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 550

Ooh, I hadn't noticed it was in ~amd64 as well.

Remember, folks, using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is bad for your system! Here's a guess at what you should add to /etc/portage/package.keywords (stolen from the ~x86 version and mangled slightly):

oggialli · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject:

Judging from the above, I'll stick to what I have done always - ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf.
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Tsonn · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 550

If you want to use ~amd64 for everything, adding it in make.conf is fine.

The problem comes if (like me) you want to use amd64 for most things, and only use ~amd64 when it's needed. Then you have to use package.keywords, otherwise portage will want to downgrade things to their amd64 versions. (And specifying a global ACCEPT_KEYWORDS during the compile will mean you end up with more ~amd64 packages than you need).
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JLP · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject:

It compiled just fine but I have some problems. Epiphany web browser doesn't even start. users-admin also crashes right after start.
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Tsonn · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 550

Well, I made it

... most things seem to be working fine.

Epiphany doesn't work... here's the error message:

HotBBQ · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:09 am Post subject:

Everything is OK for me execpt Evolution. Apparently it doesn't like IMAP. Everything else seems to be in order. All ~ system here.
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n3x · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:39 pm Post subject:

Everything installed fine for me, but it is unbearably slow. 2.6 worked fine, but with 2.8 it's so slow I can't even scroll through webpages. FVWM and flux work fine.

top shows X running at anywhere from 20%CPU all the way up to 98% when I'm using 2.8. Memory usage is fine. gdm isn't showing any noticeable slowdown either. It's only when I'm in gnome that it becomes impossible to use.

9800pro, msi k8n neo platinum, 1gb ram, 3400+

Anyone have any idea what this could be?

EDIT: Xorg 6.8.0 in case it matters.

StinkingMonkey · Apprentice Joined: 24 May 2003 Posts: 183 Location: UK

ive been using it for about 2 weeks now, all works well, no issues with it at all, only thing i want is for me to be able to rename devices found by hal, but apparently thats coming at some point, which is great because hal is excellent, recognises all drives, cd-roms etc and mounts them.
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