Bug 558604

Summary: xdmxconfig will not run
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Johnston <david>
Component: xorg-x11-serverAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description David Johnston 2010-01-25 19:29:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
xdmxconfig is a GUI for creating Xdmx (multihead) configuration files.
xdmxconfig will not run.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.7.4-1.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Execute xdmxconfig or sudo xdmxconfig.

Actual results:
# xdmxconfig
(**) dmx: Unable to read configuration file 
X Error of failed request:  BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  55 (X_CreateGC)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x4200029
  Serial number of failed request:  141
  Current serial number in output stream:  162


Expected results:
xdmxconfig program should start.

Additional info:
Results are identical if a configuration file is specified on the command line, eg
# xdmxconfig /etc/xdmx.conf

This appears to be the same problem listed in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495816
dated Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:30:02 UTC

According to that bug report, this happens on all architectures.  However, I've only verified it on Fedora 12 x86_64.

Workaround:
Create the configuration file in a text editor.
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 23:49:48 UTC 
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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