On September 30, 2011 11:41:40 AM Gary Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:20:50AM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Forgive the cross-post... the problem seemed quite applicable to > > both. I recently received a new Dell OptiPlex 390, and decided to put > > FreeBSD amd64 on it. Everything's working ok, as it is a work computer > > and the fact that I have no 2d or 3d acceleration doesn't matter. > > > > I've run into an odd problem though. When I try to start up acroread9, > > It complains that it can't open DISPLAY :0. If I set the DISPLAY > > environment variable to localhost:0, it opens just fine. I installed > > linux- firefox and it displayed the same behaviour. > > > > My i386 box does not have this problem. DISPLAY is set to :0 and > > acroread opens just fine. > > > > Any ideas? Or am I just going to have to set up my .kde4/env directory > > to set DISPLAY to localhost:0? > > > > I'm running a recent (Sept 28th) 8-STABLE amd64 with an up to date > > ports tree. > > > > I would appreciate a cc as I am not subscribed to either of these lists. > > This may be relevant: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2011- September/006042.h > tml > > Regards, > > Gary
That seems quite likely. I will keep on with my workaround and keep an eye on the list archives. Thanks everyone. Cheers, DMK _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
