From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org)
by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60)
(envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-115958-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>)
id 1PAkX7-0000bg-IW
for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:29:49 +0000
Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E32B0E07C9;
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:29:40 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181])
by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21A3E07C9
for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:29:40 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by eyg5 with SMTP id 5so2655690eyg.40
for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:29:40 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date
:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type
:content-transfer-encoding:message-id;
bh=wK7mWb8+gvd2yC9Ex9+h0hlpuvvZDPeLd/5+OqRT5TU=;
b=fLvcwfl6WNaE5/FgYZ3NORc0VrmyZYwu4YdTUD1JeABaAgiUm0Vsftkg4JFdpts5pQ
et6px7ltDvGc5kjKE5EFaEorcDMDQf2EVizrm7lD1Iq5IB1H6DMLuZvU2n/yTk4z50tJ
2vJ6o/q4xklJsH1CSqiDZAnVjwexZm+Ddr/Rs=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to
:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id;
b=KFgWvu1hx4Qvtcl79DnxuCbPzEaIojWpkpoc0x20Zw1SlaJDecsULE4CELTbIfIKd2
4hQtduDiLlApMLgXVT7mNh0+5kROmtVC7EKYveSpGeOvBt3fp+7F5odx25QL+QSkSbn2
LgjVWRVboQA/fMr+s+rOL6WVSXnvasB1eVt+k=
Received: by 10.213.30.4 with SMTP id s4mr1645578ebc.99.1288103379929;
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:29:39 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q58sm8765573eeh.3.2010.10.26.07.29.34
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5);
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:29:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:30:01 +0200
User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; )
Cc: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
References: <4CBD4C85.2010500@gmail.com> <20101026111827.3a9af2e1@marcec.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de> <1288094480.8318.120.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <1288094480.8318.120.camel@localhost>
Precedence: bulk
List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <201010261630.01789.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
X-Archives-Salt: 04ca2e5b-fcf1-4b76-aa25-d3a05905a2e8
X-Archives-Hash: 649c937a53d03e8744b968fa5c6f4d31
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:01 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Iain
Buchanan did opine thusly:
> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote:
> > Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930
> > schrieb Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking...
> > > can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x
> > > from memory. Sorry for being vague, I'll keep looking.
> >
> > Ah, I seem to remember the problem was/is mesa 7.8.2 being slow, in which
> > case a downgrade helped. Was that it? I can't find the thread myself
> > right now, though.
>
> That's it! mesa tinka yousa system broken! 7.8.2 down to 7.7.1 worked
> for the OP:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/234610
>
> "Preventing a package from being updated"
Can someone who hit this and cured it describe the symptoms seen? I might have
the same issue but it's a lot of rebuilding. I might just be suffering from
the recent 2.6.33 - 2.6.35 IO issues.
Throw stuff at wall doesn't strike me as an effective troubleshooting method
:-)
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com