On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Kiril Vidimce wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Rasmus Tamstorf wrote:
> > I've just installed the latest and greatest rpms, but when I try to run,
> > say, ivview from a remote host I get :
> >
> > mymachine:tamstorf[51]% ivview
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > Why is that ? I know I can fix the problem with xhost, but why do I need
> > to have access to the local display when I want to push the display to a
> > remote host ?
>
> Let me guess. You are using NVIDIA hardware with the NVIDIA drivers,
> correct? (even if it's an SGI PC, it's using NVIDIA hardware). If yes,
> then this is a known bug in the NVIDIA drivers and should be fixed in
> the upcoming driver rev.
That's a pretty darn good guess ! The machine is an SGI 550 box running
SGI's ProPack 1.3 ... This dates back to June of last year, so the NVidia
drivers aren't quite the latest and greatest :-/
Do you by any chance know what the ETA on the upcoming driver rev. is ?
Rasmus
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