Re: Squeeze remote X11 and GL

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:12:26 -0500, Brian Sutherland wrote:

> I have done some searching and can't seem to find an answer anywhere.
> This worked fine on Lenny and it is testing ok with Ubuntu Natty. If I
> am running squeeze be it native or in a chroot, ppc or i386, I can get
> applications to xhost from it but not opengl applications. So loading
> xterm pops up an xterm on the remote or main display (in chroot) but
> does this:
> (squeeze)root@Grackle:~# glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> 
> and nothing till I kill it
> 
> glxgears does not print anything and just sits till I kill it.

Maybe something has crashed and goes to "/var/log/syslog", "/var/log/
messages" or "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"... Can you see any error messages 
logged in the remote machine?

> Like I said other distros on other machines or chroots are fine. It's
> just squeeze that won't do it, I have not tried wheezy.

I would first compare the VGA driver version for all that computers (from 
where it works and the ones for squeeze). Different driver versions could 
lead to different results :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón