[BUG] squeak fails to start in X

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Fri Sep 7 17:08:21 UTC 2001


On Friday 07 September 2001 09:37 am, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Friday 07 September 2001 05:07 am, Matthew McNaughton wrote:
> > Symptom:
> >
> > On a Sun Ultra 10 with Creator 3d card running Solaris 2.8 with the
> > default Xsun configuration, squeak(version 3.0) prints this to stderr on
> > startup and then exits, even before opening up a window:
> >
> > X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
> >   Serial number of failed request:  8
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  15
>
> Which VM version are you using? Have you tried the Squeak-3.1a-4164
> sources? I believe there may have been some fixes in there to handle 8 bit
> depths.

I can get 8-bit depth here using VNC:

$ vncserver -cc 3
$ ./squeak -display ned:1 ../../3.0/Squeak3.1a-4325.image

Though it fails if there is a TrueColor 24 bit visual available (i.e. if I 
don't use the "-cc 3" in vncserver).

-- 
Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com




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