Giorgio Agrelli [2006-12-28 03:28]:
of course some of these problems went away rebuilding apps and the whole xorg set of ports from scratch, but, as clearly stated here:
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20061127.041128.8a08d75f.en.html
some did not, due to code that is not compliant with libx11 and xcb APIs, whose checks are becoming stricter.
Another example: * Old versions of SDL that might ship with binary-only games (eg Neverwinter Nights) suffer from the same. In that case, making the game use libSDL in /usr/lib fixes the problem * Cegeda has a locking bug somewhere, too.
So i could work around some of these problems (like OpenOffice that was relying on mesa3d built on older libxcb), but i couldn't find a way to get qt4 (taken from Sepen's repo) workig and i had to patch libxcb itself... i used this patch (yes i know it's a "regression" patch...): http://developer.momonga-linux.org/viewvc/trunk/pkgs/libxcb/libxcb-0.9.93-xc... and now qt4 are working plus i feel some (mainly gtk2-based) apps are much stabler, and don't randomly crash...
Did you search the web, bugzilla's of other Distributions (Debian comes to mind, since they already use libxcb :D) for patches for these problems? If not, file bugs against qt (at Trolltech, not at CRUX' bug tracker!) and the other apps that are crashing. Most of these locking bugs were easy to fix in the past. I don't have any problems, and it seems you're the only one (apart from Matt, who has (or had) the Cedega problem) who's got problems there...
I believe patching of libxcb for at least some months should be considered, as there is still lots of code around that won't work at all (like qt4) or worst, that will randomly close the app while working.
... which isn't enough reason for me to use this patch. Feel free to provide your own xorg-libxcb port though, that includes the patch - but I'll only use it if I get either much more problem reports or everything goes up in flames for me, too :D Code that hides bugs is the devil. Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?