Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X11R4 xlock (SS1 SunOS 4.03 cc fix 1-14) doesn't work Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 90 16:28:21 GMT References: Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Distribution: comp Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 26 In-reply-to: tana@ee.sophia.ac.jp's message of 24 Oct 90 06:40:56 GMT In article tana@ee.sophia.ac.jp (Yoshiyuki Tanaka) writes: >I have installed X11R4 on the sparcstation 1 (Sun OS 4.03) patched >with fix-1 to fix-14. Everything seems to work except for the client >"xlock". It dies with the following message: > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range > for operation) > Major opcode of failed request: 26 (X_GrabPointer) > Minor opcode of failed request: 0 > Resource id in failed request: 0xffff > Serial number of failed request: 25 > Current serial number in output stream: 25 >-------------------------------------------------------------------- xlock isn't quite up to X11R4. Try xset bc (bc = back compatibility) should fix it. Another option is to get a fixed version of xlock. /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | NeXT: A disaster looking for a place CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK. | to happen -- Bill Joy