Re: [MiNT] X server?

[Ralph Lowinski <AltF4@freemint.de>]

On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 18:12:22 , joy@sophics.cz (Petr Stehlik) wrote:
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> Or the mintnet setup is probably not 100% OK, I would say. If I
> understand it well the first thing an X client tries to do is to parse
> the $DISPLAY, get the IP address and connect to the server via sockets
> port 6000, right? So correct $DISPLAY and working sockets are a must.

Exactely.

> What about adding a simple socket test into the X server? So it could
> report immediately "your system is broken, get newer .XDD" or alike?

The server reports imediately, if it detects some activity at port
6000.  So we can be pretty shure, that the problem is somewhere in
the deepness of the network protocoll layers.  Otherwise some kind
of error would reach the server's code and be reported.

Ralph