Re: X.org Troubles: XMMS Errors Out

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Monday 01 August 2005 11:42, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org 
wrote:
>         I tried upgrading my Debian unstable system to X.org, as described
> here:
>
>         http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/185
>
>         Everything seemed to work fine, and life went on.  However, some
> time later, I noted that XMMS would no longer launch.  The error message
> is:
>
> ----
> bash$ xmms
> Message: device: default
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   serial 171 error_code 8 request_code 2 minor_code 0

I was getting this error with Xfree. Google is full of this and correspondants 
blame Xfree.
I was NOT getting it with a backported Xorg (since removed).
I am still getting it with the Debian Sid Xorg.