From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 14:00:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4F7106566C for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:00:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fred@blakemfg.com) Received: from mail.getnet.net (mail.getnet.net [216.19.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06EB08FC12 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3565 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2010 14:00:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Aug 2010 14:00:31 -0000 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at getnet.net Received: from mail.getnet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.getnet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id m1DRnhD5ZHNz for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:00:30 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 3548 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2010 14:00:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ragnok.blakemfg.com) (fredb@216.19.219.132) by mail.getnet.net with ESMTPA; 23 Aug 2010 14:00:30 -0000 Message-ID: <4C727D66.8080908@blakemfg.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:53:42 -0700 From: Fred User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091021) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4C6D1399.5050601@comcast.net> <4C6CBEAD.4070504@gmail.com> <4C6F457D.E18CCA82@blakemfg.com> <4C700925.715E10B8@blakemfg.com> <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com> <4c7215b5.rIwIR1ZB1fj+kBHK%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4c7215b5.rIwIR1ZB1fj+kBHK%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Xorg Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:00:32 -0000 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Fred Boatwright wrote: > > >> Until FBSD X is working on the pc I have to use Netscape 4.79 on >> a Sun running Solaris 2.6 (which I would prefer to keep using if >> only a modern browser was available) ... >> > > If the problems with X on FBSD are limited to the X "server" > (display subsystem), perhaps you can run X "clients" (such as a > recent version of FireFox) on the FBSD box with DISPLAY set to > the Solaris box. > > The simplest way of doing this is to ssh into the FBSD box from an > xterm (or rxvt, or whatever) on the Solaris box. Depending on how > ssh is set up you may (or may not) need to specify -X to get the > X protocol forwarded. Forwarding will result in DISPLAY being set > to something like localhost:10.0 in the FBSD shell session, and it > should "just work." > _______________________________________________ > > The problem I was having is fixed now. xrdb was hanging for some reason to be fixed later. However, I am very much interested in your suggestion and planned to post some questions about how to do it when I had time to work on it. Best regards, Fred