On 4/14/05, Dave Sherman <thurianknight at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/13/05, Dave Roe <droe at nospamreal-time.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to display an IRIX GUI application via ssh on my Mandrake 10.1
> > system, which is using the native NVIDIA driver.  The X log file is
> loading
> > the NVIDIA and glx modules fine.  The IRIX machine displays
> > this message: 
> > IrisGL: ERROR #106  Couldn't connect to display ":10.0":
> ERR_NOWINDOWSERVER
> > 
> > Does anybody have any experience with this type of thing and can offer
> > suggestions?
> 
>  Doesn't the X server usually run on display :0 by default? It does on every
> Linux distro I've ever used, including Mandrake 10.1. But if I am reading
> this correctly, your app is trying to start on display :10. If my
> assumptions are correct, then the message is exactly correct, there is no X
> server running on display :10. You will either need to modify the app to run
> on display :0, or start an additional X server on display :10.
>   Please note I'm not an X guru, but I think I've got my facts straight
> here. Anyone feel free to correct me.

You are correct that X runs on :0, but he is using ssh to forward X. 
X sets up a local display on the Irix box (localhost:10) that forwards
to the linux system on display :0.   This is a very cool feature worth
reading about if you ever need to do remote display.

Jay

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