On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:20 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006-02-22 10:17, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my > > computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error > > message: > > > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for xenon:6000: hostname nor > > servname provided, or not known > > Error: Can't open display: xenon:0.0 > > > > also when starting or stopping Xorg I either get: > > > > bad display name "xenon:0" in "remove" command or > > bad display name "xenon:0 in "list" command > > Your laptop can't resolve the name "xenon". > > > I have my XDISPLAY env variable set using (in Bash): > > > > DISPLAY=xenon:0.0 export DISPLAY > > > > xenon is the name of the machine > > > > I think part of the problem is the setting of the hostname. This laptop > > runs off of DHCP and I am not really sure about what I should do for > > setting the hostname. The manual says to set HOSTNAME="" in rc.conf if > > using DHCP, but then I get the amnesiac message upon boot. Sendmail > > doesn't like that either and hangs during the boot process. So I just > > set it arbitrarily to "xenon" > > Note that the capitalization of rc.conf variables is *significant*. The > real rc.conf variable that you have to set to avoid the "Amnesiac" name is: > > hostname="xenon" > > > I have read manual pages, searched the archives, but I am really confused > > about all of this. Thank you for any help. > > All this can be resolved by using `/etc/hosts'. Just add your hostname > there and point it to the 127.0.0.1 address. Then all programs should be > able to resolve it. > > > Thanks Giorgios, I think that I have the hostname problem resolved. rc.conf has hostname="xenon" and /etc/hosts has: 127.0.0.1 localhost xenon So now Xorg does not give errors on startup or shutdown like the > > bad display name "xenon:0" in "remove" command or > > bad display name "xenon:0 in "list" command But when not setting the DISPLAY variable explicitely anywhere I still get the error: "out of display lists" upon starting the program I want from xterm But then setting DISPLAY=xenon:0.0 export DISPLAY and then executing the program then gives the error: "Can't open display: xenon:0.0" so I guess I am back to square one. Maybe I should call it a day and rest, haha. Thanks, Rob -- ----------------------- http://www.roblytle.org Rob Lytle Home Page _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
