On 4/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:slushpupie@gmail.com">slushpupie@gmail.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:slushpupie@gmail.com">slushpupie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 4/14/05, Dave Sherman <<a href="mailto:thurianknight@gmail.com">thurianknight@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> On 4/13/05, Dave Roe <<a href="mailto:droe@nospamreal-time.com">droe@nospamreal-time.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > I'm trying to display an IRIX GUI application via ssh on my Mandrake 10.1<br>
> > system, which is using the native NVIDIA driver. The X log file is<br>> loading<br>> > the NVIDIA and glx modules fine. The IRIX machine displays<br>> > this message:<br>> > IrisGL: ERROR #106 Couldn't connect to display ":
10.0":<br>> ERR_NOWINDOWSERVER<br>> ><br>> > Does anybody have any experience with this type of thing and can offer<br>> > suggestions?<br>><br>> Doesn't the X server usually run on display :0 by default? It does on every
<br>> Linux distro I've ever used, including Mandrake 10.1. But if I am reading<br>> this correctly, your app is trying to start on display :10. If my<br>> assumptions are correct, then the message is exactly correct, there is no X
<br>> server running on display :10. You will either need to modify the app to run<br>> on display :0, or start an additional X server on display :10.<br>> Please note I'm not an X guru, but I think I've got my facts straight
<br>> here. Anyone feel free to correct me.<br><br>You are correct that X runs on :0, but he is using ssh to forward X.<br>X sets up a local display on the Irix box (localhost:10) that forwards<br>to the linux system on display :0. This is a very cool feature worth
<br>reading about if you ever need to do remote display.<br><br>Jay<br><br>--<br>Jay Kline<br><a href="http://www.slushpupie.com/">http://www.slushpupie.com/</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I've used ssh to tunnel X before, but I never realized that it ran on display :10. Thanks for the info.
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Florin, I saw yours too :-) Thanks to both of you.<br>
<br>-- <br>Dave Sherman<br>MCSA, MCSE, CCNA<br>[Insert witty .sig here.]