[gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread walt
On 10/07/2009 11:14 AM, Denis wrote: I did some searching and found that this problem is fairly widespread, but I wasn't able to find a solution to it. Basically, ever since I upgraded to libxcb-1.4 yesterday, whenever I launch an application in Xorg, be that firefox, acroread, gimp, etc, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread Denis
The xorg-server upgrade and the libxcb upgrade go together as pair. You need to upgrade the server now -- carefully following the upgrade guide, please. Thanks - I will do that. But the upgrade guide doesn't have anything in it, except how to enable Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc to kill the server...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread Denis
As a related question, does the kernel need to be upgraded from 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 (i686) for the xorg-server-1.6 upgrade? I think the bulletin mentioned upgrade necessary on an alpha, so I just wanted to check if I will have all functionality without doing kernel upgrade... Thank you - sorry for

[gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread walt
On 10/07/2009 01:34 PM, Denis wrote: As a related question, does the kernel need to be upgraded from 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 (i686) for the xorg-server-1.6 upgrade? I think the bulletin mentioned upgrade necessary on an alpha, so I just wanted to check if I will have all functionality without doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread Denis
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:56 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: The tricky part is the libxcb upgrade guide.  Did you do all the stuff it says when upgrading libxcb? Indeed, with your help, my upgrade for libxcb is complete and appears successful. :-)