Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

[O. Hartmann]

Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> On Fri, 30.01.2009 at 23:19:41 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
>> After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4
>> and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now
>> firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with this
>> error message:
>>
>> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
>>
>> Then firefox3 freezes forever, showing something like the background or
>> pixel remnants of windows/picograms moving over its window.
> 
> This should be unrelated to Xorg 7.4, as it happens to my 7.1 box,
> running Xorg 7.3 and the latest firefox3. Please try backing down
> firefox3 or some other related libraries that were updated in the last
> month (when this started to show up)
> 
> Cheers,
> Ulrich Spörlein

Hello.
As I reported earlier in this thread, I recompiled everything/package on 
my boxes at least three times and the specified problem still remained. 
But after the update of libGL/libGLUT the last three days everything 
seems to run all right now. Weird ...

Greetings,
Oliver