ports/131016: xorg-7.4 renders system unusable!

[Alex Goncharov]

,--- I/Alex (Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:01:44 -0500) ----*
| I spent hours and hours today trying to understand the issues -- and I
| am still stuck with my laptop, which became essentially unusable after
| this unfortunate upgrade.
| ....
| Can we please return to the old, time tested Xorg 7.3, until the
| obvious problems with this last release are figured out by X11
| professionals?
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I put more effort into the investigation and haven't moved far.

The current problems:

  * Dell Latitude laptop (without HAL):

    ** The events generated by the keyboard (no HAL in the game) all
        have wrong scan codes.

    ** Pressing an arbitrary alphabetic key once over an `xev' window
       leads to a non-stopping flow of events (as shown in the `xev'
       launching `xterm').

    ** Adding "XkbDisable" to "ServerFlags" doesn't help.

    ** Garbage in the xterm windows on movements and overlays.

  * Desktop (with HAL):

    ** Garbage in windows on movements and overlays.

I have to bring my laptop to a working state today, one way or
another.  Anybody want to suggest something to try before I revert to
more radical actions and the state and experience is lost?

,--- Sergey N. Voronkov (Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:49:14 +0500 (YEKT)) ----*
| Flame: Xorg team seems to start to make some strange sings last
| coupe of months. Xorg is gouing to be more and more unusable in
| default configuration. May be this is a time to resurect XFree86?
| :-))) As an alternative, we will get linux on desktops in a short
| time (strange xkb, droped modules, hal as default dependency... What
| next?).
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Indeed.

-- Alex -- alex-goncharov at comcast.net --