Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 06:12:45 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension " missing on display ":0.0". Message-ID: <F6999A5F-0465-4F83-BAF0-975D0CC6BFAB@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200901312005.51125.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <49837CFD.4080603@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <200901301430.07087.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <4984EF27.2050405@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <200901312005.51125.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Jan 31, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Mel wrote: > On Saturday 31 January 2009 15:39:03 O. Hartmann wrote: >> Mel wrote: >>> On Friday 30 January 2009 13:19:41 O. Hartmann wrote: >>>> After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new >>>> xorg-7.4 >>>> and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package >>>> twice now >>>> firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting >>>> with this >>>> error message: >>>> >>>> Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ": >>>> 0.0". >>>> >>>> Then firefox3 freezes forever, showing something like the >>>> background or >>>> pixel remnants of windows/picograms moving over its window. >>> >>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-October/039134.html >> >> Well, that doesn't help very much. As R. Noland wrote, the error >> coming >> up isn't of any harm. >> >> I still have Firefox3 not working on a FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/AMD64 UP >> box, >> running the most recent FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT and having now recompiled >> three time EVERYTHING, Firefox3 inclusive. Firefox3 is still stuck >> when >> it comes to pulldown menus or requester for download destination, >> eating >> up 100% CPU time and slowing down the box incredible. I pretty sure I >> have all the stuff of the X11 suite in the right place and the right >> revision number, as I said, I recompiled everything three times and I >> did several attempts upgrading the whole Xorg since sunday last week. > > You have 2 choices: > - revert to known working xorg-server-1.4 (xorg 7.3) > - try to debug this using the send-pr system, given the ammount of > problems > people are posting with this xorg-server, more datapoints are not a > bad > thing. > > As a sidenote, it would be nice if xorg-server14 port would be > created till > the dust has settled. I don't have an issue with any cairo related ports after upgrading to xorg 7.4. Of course I had to rebuild everything dependent on libxcb, but that took no more than one iteration to complete (apart from xchat2, which took 4 iterations to finish because of some wonky library mucking up the works). Yay for statically linked library code - _-... -Garrett
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