On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:38:34AM -0500, Chris Ross wrote: > > Hi. I'm running a solaris 8 system, with the installed > openwin X server, and fvwm-root is failing with a shared > memory error on my machine. > > I looked into it, and it's a error returned from shmget() > somewhere in the X libraries. The X error being displayed > is: > > X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private > resource denied) > Major opcode of failed request: 131 (MIT-SHM) > Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach) > Serial number of failed request: 10 > Current serial number in output stream: 11 > > Looking at the system calls, it appears that shmget() > is returning EINVAL when it's being called to create > a 5+ MB memory segment. In reading documentation, > I see that the "system default" maximum size for shared > memory is 1MB. I realize my fvwm-root is trying to ask for > a little over 5MB, but, doing some math, even a 1024x768 > screen at 16-bit pixmap-depth will produce an X Pixmap that > is 1.5MB in size. > > Perhaps there should be another way to load this? Is > this just a solaris bogosity? Can we interact with the > MIT-SHM extension directly to check on things? >
I will fix this bug this week-end. Normaly, if shm fail fvwm-root use normal XImage, but it seems that there is miss-print somewhere (a cast problem I think). Regards, Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
