[arch-general] New xorg-server package braks fluxbox?

[Javier Vasquez]

On 3/7/10, Thaddeus Nielsen <thaddeusn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Javier Vasquez [j.e.vasquez.v at gmail.com] wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today's pacman -Syu installed new xorg-server package:
>>
>> % pacman -Qs xorg-server
>> local/xorg-server 1.7.5.901-1 (xorg)
>>     X.Org X servers
>>
>> I have xorg.conf configured without hal support:
>>
>> Section "ServerFlags"
>>         Option  "AutoAddDevices"        "False"
>>         Option  "AllowEmptyInput"       "False"
>> EndSection
>>
>> I also have fluxbox installed:
>>
>> % pacman -Qs fluxbox
>> local/fluxbox 1.1.1-1
>>     A lightweight and highly-configurable window manager
>>
>> And with the new xorg-server the behavior I'm seing is that if I try
>> to maximize/minimize a window, fluxbox freezes, but if I do top, I
>> don't see any process eating resources, neither memory, neither cpu...
>>
>> Another weird behavior, is that fluxbox keys are dead.  I configured
>> for example:
>>
>> # alt-left / alt-right
>> Mod1 Right :NextWorkspace
>> Mod1 Left :PrevWorkspace
>>
>> And they don't work.  Well, if I try them like between the 1st 2
>> seconds, they actually work, after 2 seconds, they don't do a thing...
>>
>> I don't think this is a video card issue, since I have the same issue
>> with a nvidia video card, and an ati video card:
>>
>>     Driver         "nvidia"
>>     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>>     BoardName      "Quadro FX 570M"
>>
>> ...
>>
>>         Driver      "radeon"
>>         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>>         BoardName   "Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]"
>>
>> Is this a bug?  I don't want to use hal, but perhaps it's inevitable
>> now as opposed as before, when we could still not depend upon it...
>> So I'm not sure if the only way to make Xorg work now is through hal,
>> or if this is just a temporal bug to be fixed...
>>
>> Please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> --
>> Javier.
>
> I was able to "downgrade" back to xorg-server-1.7.5-1 and things seem
> to be working OK for now.
>
> 	T.

Downgrading actually works as suggested.  There's a forum already with
dicsussion about this:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92679

And a bug already filed as a result:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18598

I'll have to keep an eye on it, to see how it progress, :-)

Thanks,


-- 
Javier.