On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Matthieu Herrb <mhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Need Coffee <need.cof...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have an OpenBSD-current machine running xdm, xdmcp enabled. >> >> If I try to connect to it from a Solaris 9 machine with Xinerama enabled, >> I get this in /var/log/xdm.log: >> >> X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) >> Major opcode of failed request: 129 (XINERAMA) >> Minor opcode of failed request: 4 (XINERAMAIsActive) >> Resource id in failed request: 0x18000c >> Serial number of failed request: 59 >> Current serial number in output stream: 59 >> select returns -1. Rescan: 0 ChildReady: 1 >> >> Without xinerama, it works. Is there a way to allow this to work? >> I see that xdm has some knowledge of xinerama, so I'm assuming this >> is a Solaris issue? >> > > Looking at the code, I fail to understand how XineramaIsActive can > return a 'BadPixmap' error. > > There's definatly a bug somewhere. In can be in the Solaris X server > or on the OpenBSD libX11 side (by incorrectly interpeting the reply). > > If you're able to capture the X trafic between your OpenBSD machine > and the Solaris one, it would be nice to use a protocol decoder > (xscope or even wireshark which has good X protocol knowledge) on it > to see the exact request and reply triggering that.
I am happy to report that applying a number of Solaris 9 x11-related patches has resolved the issue. I appreciate you taking the time to look into it!
