Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

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 20:57:33
Message-Id: haivad$1bu$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". by Denis
1 On 10/07/2009 01:34 PM, Denis wrote:
2 > As a related question, does the kernel need to be upgraded from
3 > 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 (i686) for the xorg-server-1.6 upgrade? I think the
4 > bulletin mentioned upgrade necessary on an alpha, so I just wanted to
5 > check if I will have all functionality without doing kernel upgrade...
6 >
7 > Thank you - sorry for the dumb question
8 >
9 > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Denis<denis.che@×××××.com> wrote:
10 >>> The xorg-server upgrade and the libxcb upgrade go together as pair.
11 >>> You need to upgrade the server now -- carefully following the upgrade
12 >>> guide, please.
13 >>
14 >> Thanks - I will do that. But the upgrade guide doesn't have anything
15 >> in it, except how to enable Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc to kill the server...
16
17 The tricky part is the libxcb upgrade guide. Did you do all the stuff
18 it says when upgrading libxcb?
19
20 I don't know about the kernel upgrade because I'm running a very recent
21 kernel anyway.

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