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

[Mel]

On Friday 30 January 2009 13:19:41 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.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-October/039134.html

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.