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BadMatch Errors on XTerminal?!

Post by Unification Technologie » Sun, 03 Aug 1997 04:00:00



We're trying to configure a 386 PC as an X-Terminal for use with our
Linux server. We have mounted /var, /usr, and /sbin over nfs from our
server, and are able to start the X-server (XF86_SVGA).

Our server runs at 16bpp; the X-terminal runs at 8bpp. We have tried
several graphics cards.

The problem is as follows: Whenever we try to start any program but
"xv", "xlock", or a window-manager on the X-terminal, we get:

# xterm -display whisper:0
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
  Serial number of failed request:  77
  Current serial number in output stream:  85

However, "xv", "xlock", "twm", and "fvwm" and applications which use the
"xview" library all load and work correctly on the 8-bit server. We have
tried many other applications ("xterm", "xcalc", "xload", "xcalc",
"xpostit+", "xclock", and all other athena programs at least).

Does anyone know what's going on here? We can't even get a shell going
or run xvidtune to adjust the display!

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