From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 13:00:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26984 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26931 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:55:14 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA07134; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:55:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:55:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: BEAUPRE Antoine cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: can't start acm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > I can't start acm, the flight simulator, and i don't know what i'm doing > wrong. > > When I do this: > # acms & > [1] 872 > # ACM version 4.7, Copyright (C) 1991-1994 Riley Rainey > (rainey@netcom.com) > > ACM comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under the > conditions described in the COPYING file. > > I got that: > > # acm localhost > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for outpost.nada.org > acm: can't open outpost.nada.org:0.0 > outpost.nada.org:0.0 > # > > ... and the game is not running. > > what am I doing wrong? ACM can't find the address of your X server. Make sure that output.nada.org is defined in /etc/hosts. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message