> I exported DISPLAY to the local X server (:0.0) and following that I started > 'fgfs' with several options - as usual. This time I added > '--enable-fullscreen' (looks really nice then). Usually the screen locks up > after 20 to 40 seconds - this time I flew several minutes - until I crashed > the plane ....
The effect is reproducible (I mean, crashing the plane :-) I'm always running the same routine: I ssh into my workplace as root and start a shell script that sets the DISPLAY and runs FlightGear in gdb afterwards. So I can control gdb from remote (as long as my workplace is alive) and log its STDOUT into a file on the remote machine. This looks a bit interesting to me: If I start FlightGear on an 'empty' X server it works as long a I like. If I have the X server occupied by an xdm login window, I can't even open the FlightGear window. FlightGear gets a 'permission denied' from the X server (no cookie). If I log into xdm as a regular user and start an X session, then I _am_ allowed to start FlightGear the way I described above (as root, _without_ any 'xhost' permission or anything else), but the X server locks at least the screen but mostly the whole box afer less than one minute. If only the screen gets locked (which barely happens), then I the box dies in the moment when I kill the X server after logging in from remote. I'll run additional tests like starting an X session via 'startx' _without_ any xdm interference - but this might have to wait a few days. Usually I'm running an xdm standalone and starting the X server via an entry in /etc/inittab (no /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers entry), Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
