Problem when running nedit

I'm trying to run nedit from in 6.10 and downloaded the
nedit_1%3a5.5-1ubuntu1_i386.deb package using Synaptic.



~$ nedit

X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
   Major opcode of failed request:  70 (X_PolyFillRectangle)
   Serial number of failed request:  310
   Current serial number in output stream:  320

~$ nedit -V
NEdit 5.5
Sep 30, 2004

      Built on: Linux, 486, GNU C
      Built at: Oct  8 2005, 20:13:19
    With Motif: 2.1.0 [@(#)GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.93.94] 
(UNTESTED)
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
        Server: The X.Org Foundation 70101000
        Visual: 32-bit TrueColor (ID 0x4b)
        Locale: en_US.UTF-8