[BUGS] Nightmare on X street :(

[Trevor Roydhouse]

leon zadorin wrote:
>>> and so I reluctantly took the plunge, removed XFree86 and compiled and
>>> installed the latest and greatest Xorg-7.3. (Yes, I also removed and
>>> recompiled all my X apps.)
>>>
>>> Within 20 minutes to 3 hours, if using X, the entire machine would
>>> lockup. No network, no mouse, no keyboard and, of course, no logs or

>> Just curious - did you build your X sources (e.g. XLib, etc.) with or
>> without the XCB option?

> and more specifically: whether libX11 was compiled with "use xcb" option as per:
> "libX11 has some configure options, notably the --with-xcb option to
> use XCB for low-level protocol"
> 
> ... in my experience some lockups were present on systems with libX11
> which was compiled '--with-xcb'... on the other hand libX11 configured
> with '--without-xcb' was running OK... just in case it helps...

CONFIGURE_ARGS= --with-xcb=yes

Hmm ... you were right on. I'll try rebuilding Xorg without xcb and see 
how it goes.

Thanks!


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