From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 18:10:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6524837B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from structbio.vanderbilt.edu (reef.structbio.Vanderbilt.Edu [160.129.138.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2AC043E65 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:10:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@geekpunk.net) Received: from adsl-32-211-70.bna.bellsouth.net (adsl-32-211-70.bna.bellsouth.net [67.32.211.70]) by structbio.vanderbilt.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with ESMTP id g9P1ATGI030858; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:10:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:10:19 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" X-X-Sender: bandix@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: X11 display problem In-Reply-To: <20021024203033.T353-100000@april.chuckr.org> Message-ID: <20021024200627.B277-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Chuck Robey wrote: > The fix that I've found so far is either to start X with xdm (which > doesn't have that default off), to start startx with the -listen_tcp > option, or to edit the startx script to remove the -nolisten_tcp arg to > the Xserver invocation. Another option is for FreeBSD to commit a patch to the XFree86 port which restores POLA to startx. In the meantime instead of editing the script in your local install you might want to consider adding a shell alias which aliases startx to "/usr/X11R6/bin/startx -listen_tcp". Brandon D. Valentine -- http://www.geekpunk.net bandix@geekpunk.net ++[>++++++<-]>[<++++++>-]<.>++++[>+++++<-]>[<+++++>-]<+.+++++++..++ +.>>+++++[<++++++>-]<++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message