Re: xorg 6.9.0

frantisek holop wrote:
> hmm, on Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:37:57PM +0100, Matthieu Herrb said that
> 
>>frantisek holop wrote:
>>
>>>hi there,
>>>
>>>i have just upgraded to -current.
>>>
>>>i am seeing these in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>>>(WW) Mouse0: bad wsmouse event type=16777216
>>>(WW) Mouse0: bad wsmouse event type=33554432
>>>(WW) Mouse0: bad wsmouse event type=33554432
>>>(WW) Mouse0: bad wsmouse event type=-83886080
>>>
>>>i guess they are harmless, but what are they?
>>
>>They are not completely harmless.
>>Is your system loaded ? There was a change in -current that causes the 
>>interrupts of your input device (mouse or usb) to be delayed longer than 
>>before on a buzy system. This makes the wsevent flow get out of sync, 
>>causing these errors.
>>Then the X server is calling printf() to display these messages inside a 
>>signal handler, which is bad and can cause other corruption in the X 
>>server.
>>So I think that this is something that should be fixed before 3.9.
> 
> 
> i have found a message regarding to delete everything in the modules dir
> because of the update.  i just did that, and i can't see the message
> reappearing.  maybe the old libraries?
> 
> but my fonts still look a bit strange..
> the 'm' cannot fit into it's cell :(

Without more details (which font, screen shots) it's hard to tell what 
may happen.

extract /etc/fonts/fonts.conf from xetc39.tgz and try again.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb