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Date:      Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:28:44 +0100 (CET)
From:      Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org>
To:        "Brent J. Ermlick" <brent@bermls.oau.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86 lockfile?
Message-ID:  <20030102172635.N177@eldar.hayholt.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030102154608.GA73870@bermls.oau.org>
References:  <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102141916.GA59713@bermls.oau.org> <20030102152110.I199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102143903.GA71301@bermls.oau.org> <20030102161006.M177@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102154608.GA73870@bermls.oau.org>

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> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:18:48PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote:
> 	. . .
> > so i assume X is working on the server now (i don't have a monitor on the
> > server) but i'm not getting a login prompt on my Exceed :(
> >
> > the xdm.log is empty so there are no errors reported by xdm.
> > xdm is started properly from /etc/ttys
> >
> > i also rechecked the xdm config files (Xaccess, Xsession, xdm-config and
> > others) and they are still correct.
>
> Whoops. I thought that the X server and the client were on the same machine.
> I apologize.
>
> The X server is the machine with the monitor. If there are two
> different machines, then it looks as if the problem is with the
> Exceed. That is where you need to look for locks and protection
> issues. Make sure that you have run the xhost command (or the
> equivalent on the Exceed) so that the Exceed allows clients running
> on the FreeBSD machine (such as xdm and xterm) to display on the
> screen of the Exceed.
>

I've tried reinstalling exceed but that didn't help. I disabled the xhosts
so that it will allow any client to display but that doesn't help either.
I've also tried using X-Win32 on this system (and on my laptop) but that
doesn't work either. It's very odd.....

Marcel

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