Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Sorry about the delay in my response. I got tied up in lots of unrelated matters for several days. On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:55:43 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> Now that I've upgraded to X.org 7.3, I'm wishing that I hadn't done it. >> ... >>

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-24 Thread Peter Boosten
Scott Bennett wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:09:54 +0100 Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only problem I'm having since 7.3 btw (I forgot about that, but just remembered) is everytime I start nethack-qt (either local or remote) X restarts, kicking me out of my session. D

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:09:54 +0100 Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mark Ovens wrote: >> >> The other thing I've noticed is, on my box at least, that the problem >> always starts when I move the mouse (not every time of course) so could >> it be Xorg 7.3 not playing nicely with the

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:01:28 + Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Peter Boosten wrote: >> Ken Gunderson wrote: >>> [snip] Looks like you're having a problem with your window manager, instead of Xorg. Mine (with enlightenment-devel) works like charm. None of the iss

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:01:28 + Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Boosten wrote: > > Ken Gunderson wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> Looks like you're having a problem with your window manager, instead of > >>> Xorg. > >>> > >>> Mine (with enlightenment-devel) works like charm. None of the

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-19 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Scott Bennett wrote: Now that I've upgraded to X.org 7.3, I'm wishing that I hadn't done it. ... I'm still discovering more and more broken stuff in 7.3 each day. It's only partially usable. ... Did you check the integrity of your libraries? Are you maybe using portupgrade that keep

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-19 Thread Peter Boosten
Mark Ovens wrote: The other thing I've noticed is, on my box at least, that the problem always starts when I move the mouse (not every time of course) so could it be Xorg 7.3 not playing nicely with the mouse driver - or the USB driver since my mouse is a USB one? Which may explain why some p

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-19 Thread Mark Ovens
Peter Boosten wrote: Ken Gunderson wrote: [snip] 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 So how would you explain that I am seeing same type of behaviors in

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Ken Gunderson wrote: [snip] 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 So how would you explain that I am seeing same type of behaviors in straight "startx" wit

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:19:19 +0100 Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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. indeed - i've jumped

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-18 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:19:19 +0100 Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. indeed - i've jumped onto 7.3 as soon as

X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-18 Thread Ken Gunderson
[snip] >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 So how would you explain that I am seeing same type of behaviors in straight "startx" with default twm, i.e

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-18 Thread Peter Boosten
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

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
well i just reinstalled my packages from scratch (too much mess till today), with Xorg 7.3, now opera only not firefox, xterm, gimp etc.. all works fine On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, 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 ser

X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-18 Thread Scott Bennett
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 ni