On Monday 01 August 2005 11:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.