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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:30:21
Message-Id: haiq6b$fc7$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". by Denis
1 On 10/07/2009 11:14 AM, Denis wrote:
2 > I did some searching and found that this problem is fairly widespread,
3 > but I wasn't able to find a solution to it.
4 >
5 > Basically, ever since I upgraded to libxcb-1.4 yesterday, whenever I
6 > launch an application in Xorg, be that firefox, acroread, gimp, etc, I
7 > get:
8 >
9 > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
10 >
11 > The applications still run fine but take a long time to load. Now, I
12 > confess that I am still running
13 >
14 > xorg-server-1.5.3-r6
15 > xorg-x11-7.2
16 > nvidia-drivers-180.60
17 > gentoo-sources-2.6.27-gentoo-r8
18 >
19 > Is this because I did not upgrade to xorg-server-1,6 with the new
20 > versions of x11 libraries installed, or is that a bug in the new
21 > version of the libraries somewhere?
22
23 The xorg-server upgrade and the libxcb upgrade go together as pair.
24 You need to upgrade the server now -- carefully following the upgrade
25 guide, please.

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