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Article #283Re: Crash - Display Pixmap
From: James Peters
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:04
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:04
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In article <1993Jan26.150213.13194@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za> wayne@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Wayne Smith) writes: >I have the following problem when using ConvexAVS 3.0 with an Iris >Indigo workstation as the graphics display. This problem has only started to >appear recently when doing things that used to work fine previously. > >When I try do use the store frames feature of the Display Pixmap Module >the program crashes with the following error: > >X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > Major opcode of failed request: 62 (X_CopyArea) Serial number of > failed request: 28456 Current serial number in output stream: 28471 > >When I use the Force X-Renderer option I do not experience it at all, >but I used to be able to use it with rglserver. > >Where could my problem be lying : with the Convex side or the Indigo? >What can I do to find out? What could have caused it to suddenly start >crashing? > >Any answers or suggestions will be appreciated. hello wayne, i have seen the aforementioned error when using the gl rendering with a true color visual. you may want to experiment with using different visual ids. this can be done by setting an environment variable or by an appropriate .avsrc entry, reference man avs. to figure out the possible visuals use the xdpyinfo client. regards, james, peters@convex.com
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