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 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. :-)

[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 ker

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 t

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...

[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 get: