Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:26:19 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weird X problem Message-ID: <200208210926.19974.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020821091517.A16327@sjt-u10.cisco.com> References: <20020821091517.A16327@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
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On Wednesday 21 August 2002 09:15 am, Steve Tremblett wrote: | I just upgraded my laptop to XFree86 4.2 and everything seemed to work, | but I just discovered a MADDENING problem. | | I have xhost lines in my xinitrc to allow remote X programs for a | handful of machines, but since upgrading 4.0->4.2 those machines can't | display on the server. I checked the xhost commands, and the hostnames | are correct. I tried using the IP address instead with no success. | The workstation can ping the laptop, so it isn't a network problem. It | all comes down to the laptop not allowing X clients that xhost says it | should. | | Does this ring a bell with anyone? Alternatively, does anyone have any | suggestions on diagnostics to figure out what's going wrong? I am running into similar problems. I worked around it by ssh'ing to the system and then displaying through the ssh display connection, but I doubt that I should ahve to do this. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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