drw900@anusf.anu.edu.au ("Drew R Whitehouse") (08/30/90)
I'm trying to run an xterm client from a 4D210 on a Sun SLC sparcstaion running a R4 server and I get the following....(other clients eg xload run fine) [grafix:~]: xterm X Error: BadValue Request Major code 2 () Request Minor code 0 ResourceID 0x20030 Error Serial #55 Current Serial #56 [grafix:~]: Any xpert's know what's happening here ? -- /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* Drew Whitehouse, E-mail: drw900@anusf.anu.edu.au */ /* Visualization Programmer, Fax : (06) 2473425 */ /* Australian National University, Phone : (06) 2495985 */ /* Supercomputer Facility. */ /* GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT Australia 2601. */ /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
news@helens.Stanford.EDU (news) (08/31/90)
It sounds like you are trying to run an old xterm client (perhaps from SGI's IRIX 3.2 X tape) on an R4 server. The R4 server is pickier about bad arguments. Many earlier clients passed bad fields to the server. There are several ways to solve the problem: 1) Upgrade to IRIX 3.3 which has newer clients. 2) Do "xset bc" on the Sun to tell the R4 server not to be so persnickety. 3) Compile MIT's X11R4 clients on the 4D. Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics Durand 012 Stanford University FAX: (415) 725-3377 (jim@KAOS.stanford.edu) Voice: (415) 723-9127
jsw@sgi.com (Jeff Weinstein) (08/31/90)
This is the result of a compatability problem between R3 xterm and the R4 server. R3 xterm had a bug that the R3 server was not checking for. The R4 server now checks. You can turn off checking by starting the server with the bc flag, or run 'xset bc'. Or you could get IRIX 3.3 for your IRIS, since it has R4 xterm. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - X Protocol Police Silicon Graphics, Inc., Entry Systems Division, Window Systems jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com Any opinions expressed above are mine, not sgi's.
lrr@Princeton.EDU (Lawrence R. Rogers) (09/12/90)
-- OK - I have IRIX 3.3.1 and am trying to get the supplied xterm to talk to my R4 server, but it simply doesn't do anything. The xclock worked fine as do many other programs in /usr/bin/X11, but not good ol' xterm. Thanks for your help. Larry Rogers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Internet: lrr@Princeton.EDU Manager, UNIX Systems | | UUCP: princeton!lrr Princeton University | | BITNET: lrr@PUCC.BITNET Computing and Information Technology| | PHONE: 609 258 6483 Computing Center | | Alternate: 609 258 6000 87 Prospect Street, Room 201 | | FAX: 609 258 3943 Princeton, NJ 08544 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------