Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:05:50 -0900 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension " missing on display ":0.0". Message-ID: <200901312005.51125.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <4984EF27.2050405@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <49837CFD.4080603@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <200901301430.07087.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <4984EF27.2050405@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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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. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.
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