From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 15:41:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76F50106564A; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:41:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from noop.in-addr.com (mail.in-addr.com [IPv6:2001:470:8:162::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF1F8FC08; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gjp by noop.in-addr.com with local (Exim 4.76 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1R9fDY-0009MS-B1; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:41:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:41:40 -0400 From: Gary Palmer To: Dwayne MacKinnon Message-ID: <20110930154140.GA88465@in-addr.com> References: <201109301020.51042.dmk@ncf.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201109301020.51042.dmk@ncf.ca> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gpalmer@freebsd.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on noop.in-addr.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd x.org problem with amd64 and linux emulation X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:41:41 -0000 On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:20:50AM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > Forgive the cross-post... the problem seemed quite applicable to > both. I recently received a new Dell OptiPlex 390, and decided to put > FreeBSD amd64 on it. Everything's working ok, as it is a work computer > and the fact that I have no 2d or 3d acceleration doesn't matter. > > I've run into an odd problem though. When I try to start up acroread9, > It complains that it can't open DISPLAY :0. If I set the DISPLAY > environment variable to localhost:0, it opens just fine. I installed linux- > firefox and it displayed the same behaviour. > > My i386 box does not have this problem. DISPLAY is set to :0 and > acroread opens just fine. > > Any ideas? Or am I just going to have to set up my .kde4/env directory > to set DISPLAY to localhost:0? > > I'm running a recent (Sept 28th) 8-STABLE amd64 with an up to date > ports tree. > > I would appreciate a cc as I am not subscribed to either of these lists. This may be relevant: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2011-September/006042.html Regards, Gary