'ello Debian On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:40:30PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > asking Google for this problem just leaded to hints of some broken X > resources but I have no real clue what might have caused the failure > of at least three important applications which I'm running on a laptop > with an up to date testing. I never faced similar problems with three > other machines running more or less the same stuff.
> $ emacs > X protocol error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) > on protocol request 45 > Fatal error (6). [..] > The problem is that this Laptop is the machine I installed most recently > and I want to share this obervations with other developers just to prevent > that something goes really wrong in Sarge ... > So the question is, which information do I have to provide to track down > this problem. Is this a Transmeta Crusoe based laptop? Have you seen bug 216933? I get this bug periodically. Apparently running the debugging server or recompiling to turn off optimisation in the X server may help. Though I guess your symptoms are a little different. -- ----------( '<blitz> huggie: je sais je suis nulle...mais )---------- ----------( je suis très tetue alors ça compense :)' )---------- Simon ----( #parinux )---- Nomis Htag.pl 0.0.22