xf86 login problem ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sun Oct 19 19:59:20 UTC 2014


On 10/19/14 12:08, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
> On 18.09.2014 17:08, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> .... This is messy at best, if the graphical login barfs in the
>> wrong way, I get a desktop w/ no kbd or mouse control, have to login
>> from another machine & fix the problem ....(...) Could this be
>> escalated as a problem that needs fixing :-) ?
> Hi!
>
> Sorry for the long delay.
>
> I think this problem is fixed by the removal of WITH_NEW_XORG. New
> packages are all against xorg-server 1.12, so you shouldn't face "ABI
> mismatch" errors.
>
> Do you confirm that?
>

Yes, as it happens, I rebooted last week sometime & all went 
uneventfully :-) .... Mind you, I am using pkg to upgrade, so I assume 
that change was made by maintainers upstream of me ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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