I hit this issue while trying to run winetest for WineConf. I looked into it and the crash is caused by this line in dlls/user32/tests/win.c:
SetWindowPos(hwnd, 0, 32768, 40000, 32768, 40000, SWP_NOMOVE);
More precisely it's the setting of the window width and height to 32768 x 40000 that causes the crash. Looking at the .xsession-errors file I see the window manager reporting the following X server error:
Anomalie dans le gestionnaire de fenêtres : Unexpected X error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) serial 11940 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
Is it possible that this is just an out of memory issue caused by the huge window size? According to my tests 32000x32000 (a tad < 3GB) works but 32767x32767 (a tad >3GB) cause the crash.
Here's my configuration: * Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3 * VideoRAM: 256MB (according to /var/log/Xorg.0.log) * xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1 Latest from Debian Testing. Debian Unstable does not seem to have a more recent driver.
Marcus got the same issue and he had an Intel card too and we were the only two with this issue. So apparently this is Intel-specific.
Does any one have an Intel card where this does not happen? What's your driver version?