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| 399132 | 2005-10-25 07:50:00 | I have recently upgraded my PC from Fedora Core 3 to Open SuSE10 (or at least I think it is an upgrade - my old AMD850 certainly went a lot better with Fedora - it is starting to show it's age and is probably too slow for SuSe10. I have tried to reinstall mtink (the utilities for Epson printers). YAST installs it (as a RPM) with no errors, but when I try to run it I get: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 14 (X_GetGeometry) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 889 Current serial number in output stream: 889 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ and the tools does not load. Any ideas? |
johnd (85) | ||
| 399133 | 2005-10-26 09:39:00 | Are any of your other utilities giving a similiar error when you open them? I don't think it is related to mtink per se, but seems to be more with X and how it is trying to display the GUI window. Have you updated SuSE after installing it? Did you completely reformat before installing SuSE or did you keep your existing /home directory etc? | Jen (38) | ||
| 399134 | 2005-10-26 09:47:00 | Are any of your other utilities giving a similiar error when you open them? I don't think it is related to mtink per se, but seems to be more with X and how it is trying to display the GUI window. Everything else is running pretty much honky dory. Have you updated SuSE after installing it? No - but I guess you are right - I should do this. Did you completely reformat before installing SuSE or did you keep your existing /home directory etc? Formatted everything except the /home directory but attempted to wipe out any settngs to do with X. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 399135 | 2005-10-27 08:37:00 | Jen - did the update (not something I have done in the past due to having only a 56kbps modem but the new ADSL works fine!). Unfortunately even though there was a X update - no change. I am not sure that my choice of going from Fedora to SuSE was a good one - I guess there are no major problems -- but another one I have is connecting to my work WIndows 2003 thin client using rdesktop does not go either - the HDD goes into overload and nothing happens. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 399136 | 2005-10-27 09:14:00 | Have you checked out the SuSE forums to see whether anyone else has reported this issue? | Jen (38) | ||
| 399137 | 2005-10-29 04:01:00 | I have given up on OpenSuSE10 and reinstalled Fedora Core 3. Why not Core 4? I am guessing since I found SuSE10 slow on my AMD850 that Core4 would be too - same version of GNOME and KDE. Anyway I am back to a quite snappy desktop and with everythign I want to running. This is the second attempt I have made in changing to SuSE - last one was with SuSE9.2. .... I think I will stay with Fedora! |
johnd (85) | ||
| 399138 | 2005-10-29 21:55:00 | [QUOTE= :confused: j :confused: n OpenSuSE10 and reinstalled Fedora Core 3. Why not Core 4? I am guessing since I found SuSE10 slow on my AMD850 that Core4 would be too - same version of GNOME and KDE. Anyway I am back to a quite snappy desktop and with everythign I want to running. This is the second attempt I have made in changing to SuSE - last one was with SuSE9.2. .... I think I will stay with Fedora![/QUOTE] One of the risks of upgrading. It could be the level of kernel, the often quoted GLIBC thing etc etc. I tried upgrading my Red Hat 7.1 box to Red Hat 8 and it failed so I have stuck which what is running. It must seem rather old to those "get the latest version people", but it works fine (and its not an external server) . Something about if it ain't broke, don't fix it! The box I am typing this on is a dual processor ex Weta Workshops (yes!!) PIII 700 with a video card which most Linuxes took a distinct dislike to (plus I wanted the multi processor facility enabled) AND it has a SCSI drive. Even within the Mandrake 9.x range of realeases, I had problems. Settled on 9.0 as that found all the hardware and also is crisp in operation (use Icewm though). Compiling mysql and php as I can't get XML support with the MDK install of mysql and php.. |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 399139 | 2005-12-15 18:30:00 | I have recently upgraded my PC from Fedora Core 3 to Open SuSE10 (or at least I think it is an upgrade - my old AMD850 certainly went a lot better with Fedora - it is starting to show it's age and is probably too slow for SuSe10. I have tried to reinstall mtink (the utilities for Epson printers). YAST installs it (as a RPM) with no errors, but when I try to run it I get: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 14 (X_GetGeometry) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 889 Current serial number in output stream: 889 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ and the tools does not load. Any ideas? The problem is OpenSuSE 10.0. Apparently openMotif was patched by SuSE and tests where not performed. According to a security advertissment. the openMotif code was modified by SuSE in a wrong way so that correct XPM datas are no more recognized and finally the openMotif library complain about this. Please install a correct Linux distribution or install the original openMotif package. Regards, Jean-Jacquee (the authot of mtink) |
jj.sarton (9132) | ||
| 399140 | 2005-12-18 08:21:00 | Jean-Jacquee Thanks for spotting this thread - I have solved the problem by going back to Fedora. SuSE looks great but functionality for me is not as good as Fedora. John |
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