Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >>    One minor annoyance is that the task bar at the bottom is about 1/3 >> black on the left. Resolution is 1920x1080 so I'd guess about the >> first 800 pixels are painted the wrong color. The task bar still >> works

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: >One minor annoyance is that the task bar at the bottom is about 1/3 > black on the left. Resolution is 1920x1080 so I'd guess about the > first 800 pixels are painted the wrong color. The task bar still > works, it just doesn't look right. I think I have the same problem,

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Notes about what I think happened here: >> 1) I missed the message about running perl-cleaner so I had to do that. >> 2) I had a gcc build that didn't allow the profile to get set so >> e

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, so I've been pushing forward and finally I'm emerge -e @world > clean. xfce still doesn't work right. It's in fact pretty unusable at > the moment as it has no menus at all, but it's only a backup > environment so I'm going to ignore that f

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Notes about what I think happened here: > 1) I missed the message about running perl-cleaner so I had to do that. > 2) I had a gcc build that didn't allow the profile to get set so > emerge -1 gcc fixed that. > 3) After that I tried emerge -e @

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:30 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 09:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Monday 12 April 2010 18:33:21 KH wrote: >> > Am 12.04.2010 14:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon: >> > >> >> So, in the rare case of a user who can discipline himself to say within the

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 09:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 12 April 2010 18:33:21 KH wrote: > > Am 12.04.2010 14:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > > So, in the rare case of a user who can discipline himself to say within the > limits you describe, your advice is fine. But that's a theore

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 April 2010 18:33:21 KH wrote: > Am 12.04.2010 14:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > [...] > > > 2. when devs commit to ~arch, they tend to run ~arch on their test boxes. > > Issues are easy to spot and get fixed quickly. If you have a mixture of > > the two, then you have a combination that

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > I'm not a gnome user but I can try this if you want (135 packages to > emerge in my case), or if you have more specific info about which part > doesn't build I can try only the specifics. I went ahead and emerged gnome-base/gnome-2.28.2 whi

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread KH
Am 12.04.2010 14:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon: [...] 2. when devs commit to ~arch, they tend to run ~arch on their test boxes. Issues are easy to spot and get fixed quickly. If you have a mixture of the two, then you have a combination that no-one but you is using, and it will not have been tested.

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > ...is not so good actually. Certainly not the way I'd want others to > experience Gentoo. > > OK, the ~amd64 upgrade to @system was easy and relatively painless. > The documents were fairly clear. There are things to learn, and old > friends li

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:29:00 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > It's certainly not working for me at this point but I'm not upset, > mad, or anything like that. I'm asking a simple question. That's it. Except you didn't really ask a question, at least not in manner that could be answered. Posting the o

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 April 2010 14:29:00 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Are you merely ranting or asking for help? > > > > If the former, well, OK i Hear you. But I don't care. > > > > If the latter, then you need to provide info like logs, output etc. >

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:42 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> I am however documenting my experiences for others than come after me >> to this question of "to ~amd64 or not ~amd64". Nothing more. It worked >> for Alan who is a __very__ experienced and capable person. It didn't >> work for Mark (a

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread William Kenworthy
> I am however documenting my experiences for others than come after me > to this question of "to ~amd64 or not ~amd64". Nothing more. It worked > for Alan who is a __very__ experienced and capable person. It didn't > work for Mark (at this point) who is a 10 year Gentoo user but > __nothing__ mor

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 04:57:39AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> ...is not so good actually. Certainly not the way I'd want others to >> experience Gentoo. >> >> OK, the ~amd64 upgrade to @system was easy and relatively painless. >> Th

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Are you merely ranting or asking for help? > > If the former, well, OK i Hear you. But I don't care. > > If the latter, then you need to provide info like logs, output etc. > > ~amd64 works like a charm for me here. > > Neither. I think I as

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 04:57:39AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > ...is not so good actually. Certainly not the way I'd want others to > experience Gentoo. > > OK, the ~amd64 upgrade to @system was easy and relatively painless. > The documents were fairly clear. There are things to learn, and old > f

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
Are you merely ranting or asking for help? If the former, well, OK i Hear you. But I don't care. If the latter, then you need to provide info like logs, output etc. ~amd64 works like a charm for me here. On Monday 12 April 2010 13:57:39 Mark Knecht wrote: > ...is not so good actually. Ce