=== On Tue, 10/13, Denis wrote: === > Any constructive thoughts appreciated! :-)
=== It sounds to me like you are worming your way into a deeper hole. Just FYI, I went through the libxcb upgrade procedure, am running the libxcb 1.4 and latest X server, etc. and everything is working just fine. On three different machines. The close-source binaries like Mathematica are usually the problem. They almost always lag behind the current open-source offering and only support older, stable versions of libraries. So if you really want to run that I would recommend that you stick with stable arch and re-compile and/or re-install your base system. You have /home on a separate partition, right? Another possibility is that these packages usually ship with a set of libraries that the pre-load using a launcher shell script. Does it install any copies of system libraries? An alternative, albeit a heavyweight one, is to look at Mathematica's supported OS/distro list and run a virtual machine with one of those in it. You can use gentoo as your host OS. -- Keith Dart -- -- -------------------- Keith Dart <ke...@dartworks.biz> =======================
