From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 10:19:23 2008 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 73DA6106566C for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:19:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3915A8FC29 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:19:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [213.51.146.188] (port=39626 helo=smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbYuf-0000yQ-RN; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:19:21 +0100 Received: from cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl ([84.25.65.88]:4855 helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbYue-0006gl-BT; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:19:21 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D7B39877; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:19:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47DF9727.30209@boosten.org> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:19:19 +0100 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Bennett References: <200803180911.m2I9Bc8a015214@mp.cs.niu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200803180911.m2I9Bc8a015214@mp.cs.niu.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080318-0, 03/18/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess... 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: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:19:23 -0000 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