Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:41:40 -0400 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Dwayne MacKinnon <dmk@ncf.ca> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd x.org problem with amd64 and linux emulation Message-ID: <20110930154140.GA88465@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <201109301020.51042.dmk@ncf.ca> References: <201109301020.51042.dmk@ncf.ca>
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:20:50AM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > Forgive the cross-post... the problem seemed quite applicable to > both. I recently received a new Dell OptiPlex 390, and decided to put > FreeBSD amd64 on it. Everything's working ok, as it is a work computer > and the fact that I have no 2d or 3d acceleration doesn't matter. > > I've run into an odd problem though. When I try to start up acroread9, > It complains that it can't open DISPLAY :0. If I set the DISPLAY > environment variable to localhost:0, it opens just fine. I installed linux- > firefox and it displayed the same behaviour. > > My i386 box does not have this problem. DISPLAY is set to :0 and > acroread opens just fine. > > Any ideas? Or am I just going to have to set up my .kde4/env directory > to set DISPLAY to localhost:0? > > I'm running a recent (Sept 28th) 8-STABLE amd64 with an up to date > ports tree. > > I would appreciate a cc as I am not subscribed to either of these lists. This may be relevant: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2011-September/006042.html Regards, Gary
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