On 4/14/05, slushpupie at gmail.com <slushpupie at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > -- > Jay Kline > http://www.slushpupie.com/ > I've used ssh to tunnel X before, but I never realized that it ran on display :10. Thanks for the info. Florin, I saw yours too :-) Thanks to both of you. -- Dave Sherman MCSA, MCSE, CCNA [Insert witty .sig here.] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050414/1cd7fec1/attachment.htm