Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:20:02 GMT From: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/131016: xorg-7.4 renders system unusable! Message-ID: <200901272220.n0RMK29R059580@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/131016; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: alex-goncharov@comcast.net, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/131016: xorg-7.4 renders system unusable! Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:18:49 -0500 I am all right now... after a downgrade to the old X... ,--- You/O. Hartmann (Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:54:18 +0000) ----* | After an compilation orgy and the weirdness of an obvious false xcb-XXX | ... | combination for my keyboard and mouse and it works now for me - but with | the above mentioned result of not having access to my VT. `-------------------------------------------------* ,--- I/Alex (Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:08:40 -0500) ----* | The current problems: | ... | ** The events generated by the keyboard (no HAL in the game) all | have wrong scan codes. | | ** Pressing an arbitrary alphabetic key once over an `xev' window | leads to a non-stopping flow of events (as shown in the `xev' | launching `xterm'). | ... | I have to bring my laptop to a working state today, one way or | another. Anybody want to suggest something to try before I resort to | more radical actions and the state and experience is lost? `-------------------------------------------------* So, I stripped my laptop off the new X components, downloaded the old packages from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/, ran `pkg_add *.tbz' -- and have a perfectly functioning laptop now. I'll do the same with my desktop by the end of this week, I think. The obvious downside is that I can no longer do my weekly port upgrades, but I can leave without it, until the new X11 is reputed to be well functioning. This has been my first experience with so damaging an upgrade in FreeBSD and I will be much more conservative with port upgrades in the future; unfortunately if everybody is hesitant to be on the cutting edge, how will the problems be reported and fixed? It is interesting that in the port tree there are directories for (I assume less tested, less reliable) "devel" versions, of say, `firefox' and `emacs', but none of that sort for much more dangerous X11 stuff: $ ls -d www/firefox*devel editors/emacs*devel x11*/xorg-server*devel ls: x11*/xorg-server*devel: No such file or directory editors/emacs-devel/ www/firefox-devel/ Would be a good idea, I think. -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --
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