From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 14:07:46 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 AC92D106566B; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:07:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9098FC19; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:07:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.14.3+UW08.09/8.14.3+UW09.01) with ESMTP id n11E7jWO031082 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 1 Feb 2009 06:07:46 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.3] (adsl-99-139-49-79.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [99.139.49.79]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.14.3+UW08.09/8.14.3+UW09.01) with ESMTP id n11E7i5j008276 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 1 Feb 2009 06:07:45 -0800 Message-Id: From: Garrett Cooper To: Mel In-Reply-To: <200901312005.51125.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 06:12:45 -0800 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> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-PMX-Version: 5.5.0.356843, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.1.350677, Antispam-Data: 2009.2.1.135535 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=8%, Report='FORGED_FROM_GMAIL 0.1, BODY_SIZE_2000_2999 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FRAUD_419_WEBMAIL 0, __FRAUD_419_WEBMAIL_FROM 0, __FROM_GMAIL 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __STOCK_PHRASE_7 0' Cc: "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: 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 14:07:47 -0000 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