Hi Ming, try setting in $ROOTSYS/etc/system.rootrc: X11.FindBestVisual: no If that does not help let me know. Cheers, Fons. On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 23:26, Ming Feng Gu wrote: > I have just downloaded and compiled root 3.04 from source on a Debian > Linux system. and I encounter this problem: > > Error in <RootX11ErrorHandler>: BadMatch (invalid parameter > attributes) (XID: 180355131, XREQ: 55) > > right after i launch root on the linux machine which I connect to via ssh > from a sun workstation, i.e., the X-server is on my local sun workstation, > but root is running on the remote linux machine. then if i run Draw, root > will hang, after emitting the same error. If i sit on the linux machine > and run root (i.e., both X server and root on the same linux machine where > i installed root), it runs fine. It seems to me that root is having some > problem with the X server (which is X11R5) on my sun machine? Is this a > known problem? > > also I can't seem to compile root on my sun workstation with Sun's CC4.20, > is that to be expected as well? > > Thanks. > > ============================= > Ming Feng Gu > Center for Space Research > MIT, NE80-6083 > 617-258-5928 > mfgu@space.mit.edu > ============================= -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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