From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 20 08:59:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA17133 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17120 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:59:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA21088; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:56:56 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199801201656.KAA21088@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: How to fix a DISPLAY error To: ymassart@businessobjects.com (Yan MASSART) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:56:56 -0600 (CST) Cc: jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Yan MASSART at "Jan 20, 98 05:47:23 pm" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Yan MASSART said: > No, I had the problem, and it came from the color depth of X server on > the FreeBSD box. You cannot use some Solaris applications (like > firewall-1 for instance), if you're not in the 8 bpp mode. > > Hope this helps. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that one. > > -- > Yan Massart Business Objects > Network Engineer http://www.businessobjects.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul T. Root [mailto:proot@horton.iaces.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 5:19 PM > > To: jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za > > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: How to fix a DISPLAY error > > > > > > In a previous message, Jacques Hugo said: > > > Hi there guys ... > > > > > > I'm trying to export an app from a Solaris box > > > to my FBSD box, but I get this error. > > > > > > X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range > for > > > operation) > > > Major opcode of failed request: 53 (X_CreatePixmap) > > > Value in failed request: 0x8 > > > Serial number of failed request: 130 > > > Current serial number in output stream: 133 > > > > > > Where can one fix this. It looks like some illegal code > > > request to my VGA card. ??? Or does the app on the Solaris > > > box need some tweekinhg? > > > > > > This looks like the Cabletron Spectrum error for "xhost isn't letting > > me in". So are you sure you have DISPLAY set and exported on the > > Solaris box and xhost allowing the Solaris box on the FBSD box? > > > > > > > Thanks for the help. > > > > > > -Jacques > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > The box said "Requires Windows 3.1 or better" > > > ... so I got BSD > > > > > > Network Administrator | Jacques Hugo > > > UNIX Systems | jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za > > > Cape Technikon | +27-21-4603584 > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > -- > > "Are you Sarah Conner?" > > > -- The role of the military is not to be a repository for the silly social issues of the day, but to kill people and break things. -- Rush Limbaugh