On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:22:18 +0000 (UTC) Michael K <vk2...@yahoo.com> said:
> OK, I got xtrace to work ("$ x11trace -n -D 192.168.1.1:10.0" & have the > instrument connect to display 10.0) and it was more instructive... > > Got connection from 192.168.1.16:6144 > 000:<: am msb-first want 11:0 authorising with '' of length 0 > 000:>: Failed, version is 11:0 reason is ' Prohibited client endianess, see > the Xserver man page '. > > > So as per the man page I added +byteswappedclients to the Xorg command line > and it works! wow... i've never encountered that before. in all these decades... well well. :) > The HP instrument runs a Motorola MC68020 (big endian) & my RPI ARM is set up > as little endian. Back in the day I think most machines were big endian > (before *nix on Intel processors became a thing) yup. most boxes that ran x were big endian back in the day... :) but i never saw any connection barf because of this. i connected little and big endian boxes often enough. this must have changed somewhere along the way to restrict that... :) > Thanks Carsten & Grant for the clues and debugging advice 8-) > > Michael > > > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com