From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 15 05:43:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA23414 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 05:43:49 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA23408 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 05:43:44 -0700 Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id EAA00393; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 04:45:05 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199510150845.EAA00393@hda.com> Subject: Re: Problems with remote Netscape2.0.. To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 04:45:04 -0400 (EDT) Cc: combssf@salem.ge.com, hackers@freebsd.org, ache@astral.msk.su In-Reply-To: <199510130729.AAA00690@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Oct 13, 95 00:29:13 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 973 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > >I've seen the same thing, and not yet been able to figure it out. It's not > >just with FreeBSD, I've seen it on my Sparc at work while trying to display > >on my FBSD box at home! > ... > >> I can succesfully start X-programs logging to main host such as > >> xeys, xftp, etc, but when I start netscape it says that: > >> Can't open display: :0.0 > >> Does anybody have experience on this thing? > > It hasn't ever worked. The only work-around is to specify the IP address of > the server - e.g.: > > setenv DISPLAY 198.76.54.32:0.0 Works for me. Thanks. Much nicer than the old Mosaic; I guess I should put a FreeBSD system down in the house now. Unfortunately that means braving this world of DOS/Windows/FreeBSD partitions that I've managed to avoid up til now. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267