Re: [rdesktop-users] Problem using rdesktop with VNC

[Riechers, M. W <Mat...@gd...>]

Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> 
>     me ----------> Linux Machine ------------> Windows 2000
>            vnc                     rdesktop
> 
> But there's a problem.  When I try to make the rdesktop
> connection, I get an the following error message:
> 
>     Connection successful.
>     X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>       Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap)
>       Serial number of failed request: 14
>       Current serial number in output stream: 17

If you are using the -C option, try it without. AFAICT, the call to
XCreateColormap() only executes if -C is used. This would avoid the
problem, but doesn't fix it...

-Matt