Bug 340445 – x11-libs/libX11 should not report about RANDR missing when xinerama is enabled

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2010-10-11 00:39:37 UTC]

x11-libs/libX11 should not produce this message:
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
when Xinerama is enabled.

It's boring and useless.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-10-12 17:58:37 UTC]

Nothing we can do. Reopen this when it's fixed upstream?

[Comment 2 DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2010-10-12 18:07:53 UTC]

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30806

No i won't come back it when it's fixed. Because they will take years to fix this; when they do, I will forget to come back here to report (too many bugs to track - I can't memorise what I have to do when each are closed ... especially when it takes up to 8 years to fix them).

[Comment 3 DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2010-10-13 14:16:42 UTC]

The "not-a-bug-we-can-fix" have been "fixed (or not because there was no bug)" for xrandr; see comment 4 6 and 7.

For other apps i mentionned in comment 3, I will not be able to handle this alone:
Thunderbird 3.1.3 , Firefox 3.6.9 , Pidgin 2.7.2 , gkrellm 2.3.2 ,
Xdialogs 2.3.1 , Rox-Memo (Python), Rox-Filer, gmpc, -xrandr-, acroread, dvdrip (twice !!!), grip, gnumeric, pcb (Geda), gschem
(Geda), Dia, Opera, amule, pornview.

I need help to find common point for the apps that have a common point, and how to report the bug to upstream teams.

[Comment 4 DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2010-10-16 17:26:36 UTC]

=> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341323

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2010-10-17 04:19:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> No i won't come back it when it's fixed. Because they will take years to fix
> this; when they do, I will forget to come back here to report (too many bugs to
> track - I can't memorise what I have to do when each are closed ... especially
> when it takes up to 8 years to fix them).

... and having a bug open in our tracker for years which isnt going to change until upstream fixes things is pretty much worthless

[Comment 6 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2010-10-17 08:34:39 UTC]

Removing x11 from CC, this is a bug for upper layers. If any *specific* x11-owned package wrongly calls xrandr, please file a separate bug for that.

Thanks

[Comment 7 DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2010-10-17 10:22:30 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> ... and having a bug open in our tracker for years which isnt going to change
> until upstream fixes things is pretty much worthless
> 

I had not understood this message until I read your comment in bug 341323 . I repeat myself for clarity: read https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30806
 . There is no upstream bug to fix in Xorg. Xrandr have been fixed already, and they say LibXext is fine. If I(we) am unhappy with this, they implicitly expect me to report to application upstreams.