Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:19:19 +0100 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess... Message-ID: <47DF9727.30209@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <200803180911.m2I9Bc8a015214@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200803180911.m2I9Bc8a015214@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Scott Bennett wrote: > Now that I've upgraded to X.org 7.3, I'm wishing that I hadn't done it. > Firefox hangs the server, using lots of CPU time, and the only way to get > the screen, keyboard, and mouse access again is to power the machine down and > up again, and then reboot. The xscreensaver modules mostly display nicely in > the little window in the xscreensaver preferences panel, but about half of > them when run in full-screen mode immediately crash the X server on a signal > 11. PuTTY (installed from a port) is missing its terminal fonts, so I'm > stuck using ssh(1) inside an xterm. > I'm still discovering more and more broken stuff in 7.3 each day. It's > only partially usable. How did this release ever make it out the door? What > a mess. I suppose I can restore from the backups to get back to 6.9, though, > but what a drag. All that mucking around to get through the upgrade, and for > this?? Pardon my frustration, please. > Looks like you're having a problem with your window manager, instead of Xorg. Mine (with enlightenment-devel) works like charm. None of the issues you describe anyway. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org
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