ports/131016: xorg-7.4 renders system unusable!

[O. Hartmann]

Alex Goncharov wrote:
> Ditto here.
> 
> Last night I updated a desktop and have garbage (or call it a visual
> noise if you will) in my windows all the time now.
> 
> Nevertheless, I upgraded a laptop -- and can't use X here at all:
> while the mouse pointer moves, the keyboard is "dead", until some
> number of key presses leads to a loud continuous beep; I can switch to
> the non-X virtual consoles but the beep continues and I have to reboot
> the system to kill the sound.
> 
> Disabling HAL doesn't make things much better, although in my current
> configuration I don't have a continuous sound and can experiment.
> 
> Putting `xev' into ~/.xsession, I observed that all (?) the keystrokes
> result in "keysym 0x0".
> 
> Bottom line: the X system is unusable after the upgrade; no diagnostic
> tool that I tried provides a clue about how to make it work.

After an compilation orgy and the weirdness of an obvious false xcb-XXX 
compilation (xcb-proto etc needs to be recompiled BEFORE the suggested 
UPDATING step via portupgrade -rf libxcb is performed) X is up and 
running - but NO(!!!!) switching to any VT. This sucks. This is with 
driver 'nv' as with 'radeon'. Switching obviously works - I can switch 
vom ttyv7 keeping the X11-display to others - but they are black and the 
monitor is NO SIGNAL signalling. I can switch back to the tty keeping 
X11 without any problem. Having no VT/console is very bad :-(

I also performed the steps for avoiding this useless 'hald/dbus' 
combination for my keyboard and mouse and it works now for me - but with 
the above mentioned result of not having access to my VT.