From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 21:05:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3C210657B2 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:05:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B53E8FC17 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:05:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LTjV0-0005yN-Nn for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:05:02 +0000 Received: from 81.210.237.210 ([81.210.237.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:05:02 +0000 Received: from saper by 81.210.237.210 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:05:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Marcin Cieslak Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:49:00 +0100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <49860ABC.1030205@system.pl> References: <49837CFD.4080603@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.210.237.210 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090131 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 In-Reply-To: <49837CFD.4080603@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Sender: news Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade disaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:05:10 -0000 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". Looks like libraries (Xext among others) already support the XGE extension: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/36483 but the current the 1.5 Xorg server does not support and the 1.6 release is behind schedule a bit: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njg4OA I keep getting this error after upgrade of X today but everything works as usual. > Then firefox3 freezes forever, showing something like the background or > pixel remnants of windows/picograms moving over its window. The firefox problem is unrelated I think to the message above (as demonstrated later in the thred) --Marcin