Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 19:21:10 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: jmacd@uclink.berkeley.edu, andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Subject: Re: povray port, X11 display problems "BadMatch (invalid parameter , attributes)" Message-ID: <199602041821.TAA01599@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960204144415.1276A-100000@knobel.gun.de> from "Andreas Klemm" at Feb 4, 96 02:52:31 pm
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As Andreas Klemm wrote: > > I have problems with povray. When I use the +D option, a display > window will be displayed for a short moment and aborts immediately > without showing a render picture. > X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > Major opcode of failed request: 72 (X_PutImage) A BadMatch is a strong indication of an attempt to use an image of the wrong depth. Which depth is your X server running at? Unfortunately, there are still a lot of poor X clients that either don't work correctly with TrueColor displays at all, and even more that cannot cope with 15 bpp / 16 bpp. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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