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

[Yan Seiner]

Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Oct  2, 2008 at 07:18:48 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
>   
>> I've recently started running xorg 1.5.0 from debian experimental.  I 
>> keep getting this error:
>>
>> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
>>
>>     
> Where does your libX11.so.6 come from?  This message means that Xlib has
> XGE support, but the server doesn't.  libx11 in Debian is 1.1.5, which
> doesn't know about XGE.
>   

Yup, that's it.  I'll just wait for debian to get caught up.  It doesn't 
seem to be doing any harm.

(Unless I don't know enough to know better.  Should I be concerned about 
this?)

--Yan