I fixed a bug in Xdmx's Xrender extension A number of applications that use the RENDER extension suffered from fatal errors soon after launch when used with Xdmx (many valuable applications, such as firefox, gimp, distccmon-gui, gmplayer and xmms). A common workaround for this issue has been to use the -norender option to disable the RENDER extension. Unfortunately, this makes things unbearably slow. I have located and fixed this issue. The bug was in the function dmxProcRenderSetPictureFilter (in the file xc/programs/Xserver/hw/dmx/dmxpict.c). The line REQUEST_SIZE_MATCH(xRenderSetPictureFilterReq); should be REQUEST_AT_LEAST_SIZE(xRenderSetPictureFilterReq); The applications I have mentioned above crashed because they received a bad length error due to the fact that the Xdmx server incorrectly believed that the request length had to be equal to sizeof(xRenderSetPictureFilterReq), when in reality it must be equal to or greater. Because the applications I listed above sent requests of greater length they were sent errors by the DMX server and, assumming the worst, exited. Please make this change to the offical source code repositories. Thank you for your time, James Steven Supancic III
fixed in head, thanks!
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