[Xcb] Re: Problem with XCBImagePut

Orhun Birsoy obirsoy at comcast.net
Tue Jun 6 18:02:10 PDT 2006


Jamey Sharp wrote:
  > This means an I/O error occurred, unless we have a bug in XCB. I'm
> wondering if perhaps your X server is missing the BIG-REQUESTS
> extension? You can check by running xdpyinfo and looking for that name
> in the list following "number of extensions:". In that case, there's
> nothing XCB can do if you try to send more than about 256kB of image
> data in a single XCBPutImage request. If the XCBImagePut utility
> function isn't detecting that case and auto-splitting the image, I guess
> that's a bug in XCBImage.

xdpyinfo reports I have BIG-REQUESTS extension.


Jamey Sharp wrote:
> It would be interesting to know if you have the same problem with the
> shared-memory (SHM) versions of these functions, because the
> BIG-REQUESTS extension isn't relevant for those.
> 
> Note that XCBPutImage returns an XCBVoidCookie, and if the `sequence`
> field of that structure is 0 then an error occured while trying to send
> the PutImage request to the server. Checking for this error return may
> help us track down your problem.
> 

I'll try your suggestions.

Thanks.

Orhun Birsoy



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