Console spammed with Unknown X event type messages

[alaperrot]

Running any freeglut based application from a terminal with Xorg server 1.8 or later cause that terminal to be spammed with freeglut messages like the following one:

freeglut (./myglutapp): Unknown X event type: 105

I am currently running Kubuntu Maverick AMD64 with Xorg-edgers PPA:
- freeglut3 2.6.0-0ubuntu2
- xserver-xorg-core 2:1.8.99.905+git20100714.a2c13f0d-0ubuntu0sarvatt

I had the same messages on Kubuntu Lucid AMD64 with Xorg-edgers PPA.

I have found two related fedora bugs :
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575885
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595031

The fix released for fedora package was just to comment out the generation of that annoying message :
- http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/freeglut/F-13/freeglut-2.6.0-noxwarn.patch?view=markup

[alaperrot (alaperrot)]

I have just seen a related commit in mesa:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=f8d81c31cee30821da3aab331a57f484f6a07a5d

and the related bug entry:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27962

So it looks like it is a bug in mesa, not in freeglut.

Unfortunately, that commit cause KWin to segfaults when OpenGL desktop effects are enabled (I have reported that new bug at freedesktop.org).