Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:43:30 -0600 (CST) From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: hselasky@FreeBSD.org Subject: libSDL versus XDM authentication Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001191727420.52285@thor.farley.org>
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I recall running into this in the past with some application I cannot
recall at the moment, yet I just bumped into it again recently when
trying to run multimedia/pwcview.
# pwcview
Webcam set to: 320x240 (sif) at 5 fps
XDM authorization key matches an existing client!Failed to init sdl: Couldn't open X11 display
The issue is that xdm uses XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authentication, so I have
these as well as MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 listed within ~/.Xauthority. libSDL
by default does not like this.
Three possible solutions and one guess are available:
1. Link pwcview with libX11.
2. Add 'DisplayManager*authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1' to xdm-config.
3. (untested) Configure libSDL to be built with
SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER_X11_DYNAMIC defined and src/video/x11/SDL_x11video.c
changed to include FreeBSD with __osf__ in the check. This causes it
try again after one second. The comment claims that this works for
this issue.
4. Linking libX11 to libSDL? It is just a thought.
Sean
P.S. libSDL 1.2.14 is available.
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