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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:10:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: X11 display problem
Message-ID:  <20021024200627.B277-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021024203033.T353-100000@april.chuckr.org>

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Chuck Robey wrote:

> The fix that I've found so far is either to start X with xdm (which
> doesn't have that default off), to start startx with the -listen_tcp
> option, or to edit the startx script to remove the -nolisten_tcp arg to
> the Xserver invocation.

Another option is for FreeBSD to commit a patch to the XFree86 port
which restores POLA to startx.  In the meantime instead of editing the
script in your local install you might want to consider adding a shell
alias which aliases startx to "/usr/X11R6/bin/startx -listen_tcp".

Brandon D. Valentine
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http://www.geekpunk.net                         bandix@geekpunk.net
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