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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)

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