Re: [dwm] dmenu, slock patches; slock DPMS crash

Hi Anselm,
I was using slock v0.8[1] and received the error below. The code in hg
tip fixed the problem. Anselm can you release v0.9 with these fixes?

Thanks,
-steve

X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 136 (DPMS)
Minor opcode of failed request: 6 (DPMSForceLevel)
Serial number of failed request: 27
Current serial number in output stream: 28

[1] http://code.suckless.org/dl/tools/slock-0.8.tar.gz

On 00:46 Thu 10 Apr, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:12:23AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:37:10PM +0200, Peter Hartlich wrote:
>> > >> Also, with the new DPMS code from changeset 31, slock crashes here
>> > >> (X.org server 1.4.0.90, DPMS disabled in xorg.conf):
>> > >>
>> > >> | X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>> > >> | Major opcode of failed request: 136 (DPMS)
>> > >> | Minor opcode of failed request: 6 (DPMSForceLevel)
>> > >> | Serial number of failed request: 27
>> > >> | Current serial number in output stream: 28
>> >
>> > > Right, should be fixed in hg tip now. Please confirm this due to
>> > > a recheck.
>> >
>> > Still crashes at DPMSForceLevel. It seems that DPMSCapable returns True
>> > even with DPMS disabled...
>>
>> Well, then I need to add an error handler.
>
>I pushed a changeset into hg tip of slock which attempts to fix
>the DPMS issue without using a separate error handler, hence
>please recheck, If the crash still occurs, there is no other
>choice than wether not supporting DPMS or implementing an error
>handler which ignores BadMatch errors due to DPMSForceLevel
>calls.
>
>Kind regards,
>--
> Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 29 2008 - 00:34:13 UTC