Re: Weird things with X and apps

[Michele Comitini <mcm@glisco.it>]

You have to patch the kernel with the alpha patches or use 2.1.x kernels.

On 28-Oct-98 Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 28 Oct 1998, Ove Thomasson wrote:
> 
>> X Error of failed request:  BadAccess (attempt to access private resource
>> denied)
>>   Major opcode of failed request:  129 (MIT-SHM)
>>   Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_ShmPutImage)
>>   Serial number of failed request:  49
>>   Current serial number in output stream:  50
> 
> Start gimp (and other GTK apps!) with the --no-xshm flag. I'm not sure
> what the deal is (i.e. whether the problem is with the kernel or with
> the X server), but the application can apparently not access X server
> shared memory, which it tries to do by default.
> 
> Unfortunately the library doesn't fall back to --no-xshm automatically
> if it fails at first...
> 
> 
> Paul Slootman
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