Hi. I dipped a toe for the first time into 'slackare current' and installed
the latest Xorg server packages from the Slackware site on my Slackware 12
system. I did this to try and get RandR to work ... you might see me here
tomorrow asking about that! :-)

Running KDE with xorg-server-1.4.0.90-i486-1 I find that KDE is pumping
out a number of error messages like this to my .xsession-errors:

X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 158
Minor opcode: 6
Resource id: 0x13b
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x1c00005
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x1c00005

.... and so forth. For example, every time I create a terminal window and
then exit it I get at least one of these messages. But KDE itself seems to
be working okay.

I'm honestly not sure if I was logging these errors before I upgraded to
the new
version of the xorg-server package. I ended up installing every Xorg server
and libX* package (and some of the XFree86 ones) from slackware-current
in the hopes that this was some sort of library incompatability, but the
problem remains.

(I *think* it may have happened even with my 'pure' Slackware 12; because
I see it logged when I run KDE under VNC, and the Xvnc X11 server wasn't
changed when I upgraded Xorg)

If I do a search on the web I see this sort of error popping up all over the
place (although there's not many solutions). If it's a generic sort of X11
problem I'm hoping someone might be able to tell me where I should look,
if not details on this exact problem with KDE.

I'm curious as to whether:

- folks here with a 'pure' Slackware 12 installation have this problem?

- people who have brought their system totally up-to-date with
'slackware-current' - downloading and upgrading every package - have
this problem?

Or if anyone can tell me what the actual problem is caused by, of course!

While I'm here ... even with the pristine Slackware 12 I noticed a lot of
messages being syslogged to /var/log/messages:

sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.

at a rate of about once a second. I only get this problem with KDE; when
I'm running fvwm2 as my window manager it's not logged at all. If I put
a DVD disc in the drive KDE shuts up :-). After it launches a popup window
asking me what I want to do with the disc.

When I go into Control Panel / Peripherals / Storage Media and
enter the 'Advanced' tab there are three tick boxes:

[X] Enable HAL backend
[X] Enable CD polling
[ ] Enable medium application autostart after mount

but the first two are disabled - greyed out - so I can't untick those
boxes.

HAL is running normally on the system anyway; and as I mentioned before
the syslog messages aren't produced unless I'm running KDE.

Can anyone help with either of these KDE problems?

Thanks,


Brad