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-user@hadt.biz
<mailto:gentoo-user@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).

***thread closed***

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Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan
<contact@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-user@hadt.biz
>>>> <mailto:gentoo-user@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

On 07/14/2012 10:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:


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.



Interesting. The only difference here is, it's a desktop with 3 GB RAM,
with a i945 instead of i915. Buggy opengl drivers probably.


--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan
<contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:
> On 07/14/2012 10:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Interesting. The only difference here is, it's a desktop with 3 GB RAM, with
> a i945 instead of i915. Buggy opengl drivers probably.

A backtrace from gnome-shell would shed more light.

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging

Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México