On 4/14/05, Dave Sherman <thurianknight at gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/13/05, Dave Roe <droe at nospamreal-time.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to display an IRIX GUI application via ssh on my Mandrake 10.1 > > system, which is using the native NVIDIA driver. The X log file is > loading > > the NVIDIA and glx modules fine. The IRIX machine displays > > this message: > > IrisGL: ERROR #106 Couldn't connect to display ":10.0": > ERR_NOWINDOWSERVER > > > > Does anybody have any experience with this type of thing and can offer > > suggestions? > > Doesn't the X server usually run on display :0 by default? It does on every > Linux distro I've ever used, including Mandrake 10.1. But if I am reading > this correctly, your app is trying to start on display :10. If my > assumptions are correct, then the message is exactly correct, there is no X > server running on display :10. You will either need to modify the app to run > on display :0, or start an additional X server on display :10. > Please note I'm not an X guru, but I think I've got my facts straight > here. Anyone feel free to correct me. You are correct that X runs on :0, but he is using ssh to forward X. X sets up a local display on the Irix box (localhost:10) that forwards to the linux system on display :0. This is a very cool feature worth reading about if you ever need to do remote display. Jay -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com/